Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scientists have long admired the industrious ants that keep aphids as cows and milk them for their sweet "honeydew" secretion. Now a graduate student in entomology has added to the brief catalogue of insect husbandry Louisiana State University's Gary Ross has watched Mexican carpenter ants (Camponotus abominalis) protect caterpillars against their natural enemies and live on the juices that the caterpillars excrete. Though both parties benefit from the odd relationship, nature ensures that it is always brief: by the time they are 83 days old, the caterpillar cattle sprout orange-rimmed wings and fly away...
...Mexican business talk, a "coyote" is a slick deal-maker who moves secretly, cultivates the right people in high places and knows how to come away with a good profit. But coyote is not an offensive label to big, jowly Carlos Trouyet, 59, a Mexico City banker and financier who prizes the title so highly that he wears in his lapel a small coyote made of diamonds. With a personal fortune of well over $15 million, Trouyet (pronounced true-jay) is a director of 42 companies and chairman of 19 of them-in telephones, steel, cement, plywood, textiles, hotels, beer...
...Celulosa de Chihuahua, of which Trouyet is co-founder and 8% owner, is in the midst of a $15 million expansion that will double its annual production of pulp to 110,000 tons. At the same time, Trouyet is putting the finishing touches on a deal to start a Mexican investment trust company, with assets...
...rich-quick tycoons, Trouyet has close ties with the country's ex-Presidents, particularly Multimillionaire Miguel Alemán, who has a large stake in Mexico City's Continental Hilton hotel, of which Trouyet is chairman. But Trouyet differs from the usual run of Mexican businessmen in two important ways. He does not complain about the government's growing ownership of Mexican business, and he has done more than anyone to encourage public share-ownership in a country where tightly held family businesses are the rule. With a philosophy that enrages the Communists, who have made...
Back-Scratching. Born in the squalid red-light district of Mexico City to a French immigrant father and a Mexican mother, Trouyet began as an office boy in a bank. He made his way up through stock brokerage with a knack for winning important friends. Making himself useful to other like-minded coyotes-including Banker Anibal de Iturbide and Insurance King Manuel Senderos-Trouyet cut them in on his deals, in turn was let in on theirs. Last year he persuaded Textile Tycoon Je-ronimo Arango Sr. to join him in buying a 55% stake in the big old Orizaba...