Word: maguey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking single transformation wrought by the boom has taken place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...
...died during the first year of life; another estimated 85,000 died or will die between the ages of one and four. One of the main causes of death is malnutrition. Most poor children get no milk at all after weaning, drink pulque (fermented juice of the maguey plant) instead. The parents of a pellagra-stricken three-year-old girl last week listed a typical diet: for breakfast, beans, tortillas, pulque; for lunch, beans and pulque] for supper, orange-leaf tea. Said a Mexican doctor: "The children of Mexico suffer from 'mexicanitis'-hunger...