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...Mexico City, the government of Luis Echeverría Alvarez has been troubled by the prospect of an economic boycott, principally involving the tourist industry, carried out by American Jewish organizations in the wake of Mexico's vote for the Zionism resolution. Faced with a big drop in the country's billion-dollar tourist business, President Echeverría two weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with...
...Luis Echeverría Alvarez, 53, is Mexico's first reformist President in 30 years. Since his election in 1970, he has committed his administration to closing the economic gap between the poor and lagging rural population and the well-to-do urban classes. It is a race against time. Uncorrected, these inequities could plunge Mexico into a revolution potentially as traumatic as the bloody 1910 revolution that took over a million lives...
...Echeverría's ambitious reform program, which includes modernizing governmental machinery, fighting corruption, uplifting the rural sector, and tax and banking reforms, has been opposed by businessmen and conservatives within his own party, the P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), not to mention Mexico's political bureaucracy. The President spends much time traveling round the country on what he calls giras de trabajo (working tours), during which he spends hours listening to the problems of campesinos and calling on the people to support his liberal reforms. He has also traveled more widely abroad than his predecessors, having visited...
...tended to take its southern neighbor pretty much for granted. That day may be over. The discovery of large oil reserves late last year has already enabled Mexico to become an important exporter of oil. But Mexico says it has no intention of joining OPEC, and Echeverría is on record as saying Mexico will sell its oil to whoever wishes...
Flores closely identifies with his many Mexican-American parishioners. Raising more than $20,000 for Mexico's earthquake victims, Flores ignored Mexican President Luis Echeverría's declaration that no U.S. aid would be accepted, went to Mexico and personally distributed the funds...