Word: gringoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poverty and lack of information. "Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California. The comment about "ebullient oles and accurately hurled wine bottles" stretches literary license. The word cholo is pejorative and equivalent to "nigger," "kike" and other racial epithets. Pocho is also derogatory, and so are pachuco, gringo-landia, and agringado...
...Gringo Grumbles. Mexico's motives are not altogether selfless. It would like to boost exports and build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply...
...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...
...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...