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...Nicknames include Pac-Man, The Mexi-cutioner, The People's Champion and National Fist...
...experts, however, believe Mexico would not have the wherewithal to make the investment required to double its output unless it could line up cash customers first. One willing buyer might be the U.S. Department of Energy, which under a one-year contract is already pumping 170,000 bbl. of Mexi can oil per day into the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and has paid $1 billion in advance...
About the only obvious beneficiaries of devaluation so far have been the Mexi can businesses that are nestled along the U.S. border from Tijuana to Matamoros. They are enjoying a virtual stampede of U.S. consumers, who are swarming south from San Diego to cash in on lower prices resulting from a U.S. dollar that suddenly buys nearly twice as much in Mexico as it did a month ago. Bargains include unleaded gasoline, which now sells for 87? per gal., vs. $1.50 in early February, and white rice, which goes for a mere 30? per Ib. By contrast, business in many...
Learned with Hornets. Now Edmun-Campello, secretary of agriculture for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has begun a new campaign. Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups. Wherever he can find a hive, he plans to kill the African queen and replace her with an already fertilized Italian. When new Italian queens, workers and drones are born more Africans will be replaced until, Campello hopes, the bad bees will be bred out of Brazil...
bawled the fight fans in the tiny Mexi can 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...