Word: gringo
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...latest novel "The Old Gringo," Fuentes explores the relationship between Mexico and the U.S. In the original Spanish language version, the parts of the two American characters are actually written in English. In spite of Fuentes' efforts in his novels to bring the U.S. and Mexico together with his characters, there remains a constant tension between the two cultures throughout the novel. The inherent antagonism between cultures is captured in the old gringo's words, "To be a gringo in Mexico, that is suicide...
...cities, the Mexican influence has even made Americans a minority. In Los Ebanos, Texas, 80 miles northwest of Brownsville, Postmaster Lucio Flores was asked how many of the town's 800 residents are Anglos. Flores held up one finger and said with a grin, "We call him El Gringo." What is happening along the border, says University of Arizona Anthropologist Tom Weaver, is "the Americanization of Mexico and the Mexicanization of America." It is a relatively painless way for neighbors to become friends...
...contra leader now in exile in Miami, Edgar Chamorro, told TIME that the document is based on notes given him a year ago by a "gringo" who arrived as a CIA operative at rebel headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was described by Chamorro as an Irishman who fought for the U.S. in the Korean War and admired the "psychological operations" of the Irish Republican Army. Chamorro printed up 2,000 copies of the manual and handed out 200 of them to his troops, but then he had second thoughts. He revised the rest by censoring out references to "criminals...
Salvadoran affairs. Appealing to a well-developed Salvadoran sense of nationalism, D'Aubuisson declares that "we prefer tortillas and beans and to eat them with dignity than gringo bread and to eat it with pain in our souls." ARENA bumper stickers issue a challenge: SURRENDER YOUR COUNTRY, NOT OURS...
Most U.S. bankers avoided the week-long session. Only Bank of America and Chase Manhattan sent observers. "It's a no-win situation," noted a Caracas-based U.S. moneyman, who said he had feared that banks and Americans in general would come in for "some gringo-bashing that we could do without...