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...solution to Lucas' problem and that of millions of other women: hiring affordable domestic help. Surely the innumerable welfare recipients capable of working could provide the child care. That would give these women voters some much deserved free time and provide jobs for unemployed welfare recipients. WANDA ZAKRZEWSKI Chapala, Mexico...
...Mexican culture at the Harvard University Art Museums. Free admission to Sackler, Fogg Art and Busch-Reisinger Museums. Xuchipilli, regional Mexican dance at 1:30 and 3:15 p.m. at Fogg Art Museum. Mili Bermejo and Dan Greenspan Duo + 1 at 2:15 p.m. at Sackler. Mariachi Chapala at 4 p.m. at Sackler. Free. For more information, call...
Some of the other events planned next week forthe campus-wide "Festival Mexicano!" areperformances by the Boston-based dance groupXuchipilli and musical groups Mariachi Chapala andthe Mili Bermejo and Dan Greenspan Duo + 1. Therewill also be arts and crafts workshops and araffle...
Transplanted Americans can be unwitting victims of the roller-coaster Mexican economy. Velma Dempsey, who has lived in Chapala for 17 years, recalls visiting a bank in 1982 to transfer her life savings from the U.S. Perturbed by the slow-moving line, she went home, planning to return the next day. Overnight, the government expropriated all dollar savings, compensating depositors with pesos. Sighs Dempsey: "I was never so grateful for inefficiency...
...occupied, many turn to charity work. American residents fund an orphanage and a home for indigent Mexicans. They arrange visits by American medical specialists to treat Mexicans. Last June Obregon Street in Ajijic was resurfaced, courtesy of the foreign community. Says Kay Pike, a retired actress who moved to Chapala four years ago: "Do-gooding is an attraction for those of us who think of Mexico as our adopted country...