Word: colegio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frequently south of the border. But Mexican newspapers highlighted the fact that the slain policeman was the father of three and accused youthful American visitors of an arrogant belief that in Mexico, anything goes. "We still don't understand one another," says Guillermina Valdes-Villava, head of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Ciudad Juarez. "We seem tied to images that are largely historical...
...have eroded popular confidence in the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), essentially a monopoly political group that changes its near absolutist leader every six years. The P.R.I. has dominated Mexico for more than half a century. During that time, says Manuel Garcia y Griego, a historian at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico, "economic growth has been the central pillar of the functioning of the system." Bruce Bagley, a Washington-based Latin American expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, warns that "if oil prices hold below $20 per bbl., it will be a disaster...
...story about a secret jail where political prisoners were said to be tortured. In a deliberate effort to break the system, Schmidt, then an investigative reporter for San Jose's English language Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa Libre, challenged the Costa Rican colegio at a San Jose meeting of the Inter- American Press Association (IAPA) in 1980. "I'm covering this meeting illegally," he announced. "Let me work or sue me." The colegio responded to the dare, and a criminal suit followed. At his first trial in 1983, Schmidt was acquitted; a lower court ruled...
...Supreme Court, Schmidt left the country--and journalism--to become a financial consultant in Dallas. But he continued the fight. When the Supreme Court released its decision, Schmidt rejected the judges' stipulation that the sentence would be suspended if he returned to Costa Rica and apologized to the colegio. Government attorneys indicated that he could receive a pardon...
...powerful message, starting in Costa Rica. "We cannot imagine," editorialized La Prensa Libre, "that we requested an opinion only to lightly ignore it." Elsewhere, evidence is mounting that the message will not be discounted. In the Dominican Republic, six publishers are pressing a court challenge against that nation's colegio. And in Peru, Editor Enrique Zileri sees the Schmidt decision as the end of any oppressive threat from licensing. He exulted, "It can't happen here." Although gratified about the victory, Attorney Marks feels the battle has barely been joined. Said he: "Now we've got to go to work...