Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 500,000 welcomed Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos, 52, home from his twelve-day "goodwill journey" to Europe, the first official visit ever made by a Mexican President. On a five-nation swing "in the cause of peace," López Mateos adroitly balanced cordial visits to Yugoslavia and Poland with an abrazo for De Gaulle and a nice chat with old friends Prince Bernhard and Princess Irene of The Netherlands. West Berlin was on the agenda too, and there Mexico's "independent" foreign policy made sightseeing a drag. López Mateos...
...central square of Crystal City stands a statue of Popeye, a symbol of the town's claim that it is "the spinach capital of the world." Otherwise, Crystal City (pop. 10,000) is like a lot of other farm towns in South Texas. Mexican-Americans outnumber Anglo-Americans four to one, but the Anglos run the place...
Last week, with Texas Rangers standing by to keep order, hundreds of Crystal City Mexicans gathered round the statue of Popeye. It was election day in Crystal City, and a revolt was under way. One by one, Mexicans crossed the square and lined up at city hall to vote, many for the first time in their lives. When the votes were counted, Mexican candidates had captured all five seats on the city council. And control of the council gave the Mexicans control of the town government, with authority to appoint the mayor, the marshal, and other officers...
...revolt in Crystal City was managed by a three-year-old Texas organization called Viva Kennedy during the presidential campaign, now named PASO (short for Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations). Dedicated to the advancement of Mexican-Americans. PASO chose Crystal City as a test site for a get-out-the-Mexican-vote drive. At first the Anglos paid little attention to the PASO rallies, but as election day neared, they discovered that more than twice as many Mexicans as Anglos (1,139 to 532) had paid poll taxes to vote. In a flurry of appeasement, the city council voted...
...Mexico, Brazilian diplomats called on influential Mexican authorities to convince them that it would be a good idea to keep Lázaro Cárdenas at home. Brazil's embassy in Mexico City then announced that a new rubber stamp was needed to validate tourist cards-and apologized to waiting Mexican and Cuban delegations that the stamp had not yet arrived from Brazil. It never...