Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of Von Raab's positions are extreme by any standard. He told TIME that he would support sending U.S. troops to Latin America to clean out the Medellin cocaine cartel -- preferably with the Colombian government's permission but without it if necessary. "People talk about sovereignty," says Von Raab, "but what about our sovereignty? They are chemical-weapons factories. They fly poison out and drop it on shopping malls...
Such talk is anathema at State and Justice, where military intervention is viewed as a blatant violation of international law that would inflame the Latin nations. Bennett supports limited use of U.S. military advisers, but only for training and only at the invitation of the host nations...
...Raab stresses that unilateral military action should be a last resort. He would prefer to use trade and financial sanctions against drug-source nations such as Mexico -- also anathema to traditionalists at State and Treasury, who argue that punitive economic measures would undermine Latin American economies and drive thousands more people into the drug underground. "Before long, there may be provisions in International Monetary Fund loans about ((protecting)) elephants in Kenya and rain forests in Brazil," says Von Raab, "but there are no provisions on drugs...
...left. There is a deep nationalism and a sense of social justice among Mexican people that Cardenas has identified with in a very mystical and mysterious way. He has become a symbol in a nation that has the most flagrant inequalities and injustices of any nation in Latin America, if not in the entire Third World. We are not the poorest country, but we are the most unequal. Cardenas has become a symbol of the desire for equality in Mexico, or less inequality, and a symbol of the defense of the nation in a country where this nationalism question...
...apprenticeship is not over, not yet. One day some fisherman with a pipe stands in the stream nearby releasing fish and announces that the trout are hitting bugs with an unpronounceable Latin name. You nod but don't know what he's talking about. Then back to the books for a quick course on streamside biology, matching the hatch, figuring out what the trout is eating and which artificial flies imitate those insects. Armed with a little entomology and inflamed with trout psychosis, you start buying everything that countless catalogs offer: stream thermometers, a flashlight for nighttime fishing, hook- sharpening...