Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display of Communist penetration in Latin America, but it is far from the whole show. In remote corners and pockets of the hemisphere, there are places where the Communists are either in effective control of a region or very near to it. One such corner is the ruggedly scenic Mexican state of Michoacán, on the Pacific coast north of the resort town of Acapulco (see map). Admits one of the state's own officials: "What we have here is a well-cultivated Communist zone...
...strongly proCommunist. Why not? The Russians have been busy in Michoacán for years, and their influence spreads from back-country schoolhouses, where maps of Russia outnumber maps of Mexico, to the capital of Morelia, where the Russian Institute wields far more influence than the U.S.-supported American-Mexican Cultural Institute...
...conservative estimate, about 25% of the 7,500 students are Communist in everything but card. Michoacán recently sent a dozen students off to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, and two years ago, during the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion, rioting students burned the American-Mexican Institute. By no coincidence, two members of the Russian embassy had traveled from Mexico City to Morelia just before the riots...
Blatchford will speak to a group of Harvard people who have been selected to go to Venezuela next month, and anyone interested in applying for the Mexican Project...
...Geology and chief of the crystal growth section of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, will give an illustrated lecture on "Recent Advances in the Study of Crystal Growth," and R. Gordon Wasson, research fellow in the Botanical Museum, will speak on "Recent Discoveries in the Area of Mexican Hallucinogenic Plants...