Word: gringo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, noisy groups of leftists, he had a warning not to endanger the Mexican consensus by inciting strikes, disorders and sedition. For the anti-gringo nationalists, he criticized U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. For Washington, which has provided massive loans and grants, there was praise for the Alliance for Progress (something that his predecessor, Adolfo López Mateos, never found it in his heart to do). For Mexico's ballooning middle class, there was a call to partnership with the public sector in building new businesses and factories. For the progress-minded, there was a rattling...
Unceasingly, the rebel radio dinned against the "Yanqui invaders." Businessmen were warned not to open shop: "Each bullet in a rebel gun has the name of a gringo on it, and if not a gringo then an industrialist." At each turn of the negotiations with Special Envoy Martin, Caamaño had new complaints, new demands, new reasons for not negotiating with Imbert's junta. He imperiously demanded his own "corridor" slicing across the U.S. cordon along Avenida San Juan Bosco-to maintain communication with "our forces in the north." Such a passage would nullify the entire U.S. effort...
...Mata al gringo! Mata al gringo...
...town. It was 1941, and the skinny, 21 -year-old American college boy calling himself "Chopper" Hood slugged away at his Mexican opponent. "After a little while," recalls the Chopper, "I realized that what they were yelling was 'Kill the Yankee!' " Thus, if somewhat inauspiciously, began Gringo Hood's longtime friendship with Latin America...
...kind of "human catalyst." He emanates the idea: "We can do something about this.' " He initiates the process of organizing resources and assigning priorities. "The photographs show the same village, physically unaltered before and after," says Delano (referring to a Peace Corps pamphlet on Peru), "but because one gringo had the patience to stay and ask questions, something has changed: the people...