Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barely audible cries and the muffled thudding of fists came from a rented truck parked beneath a pitiless sun in San Antonio, Texas. Summoned to in vestigate, police smashed the truck's locked back door, peered inside and recoiled. Crammed into the airless, oven-hot space were 47 Mexican laborers. One was dead, two dying. Fifteen others had to be hospitalized for heat prostration. The truck driver had fled. For the hapless Mexicans, it was the end of a dream of jobs in Chicago as illegal wetback immigrants. Each had paid 1,250 pesos ($100) to be brought into...
...current Mexican student revolt, Gerassi said, bears more resemblance to the unrest of American youth than to outbreaks in other parts of Latin America. The Mexican students, he noted, are largely from the middle class, and are fighting for "the humanization of society," not primarily for a share in their society's wealth...
...government of Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz is not acting in a state of temporary insanity--driven to such lengths by the booty offered it by the Olympic Games. Twice in the space of 18 months Diaz has ordered similar massacres of unarmed civilians--in the state of Guerrero last summer and at the University of Hermosillo a few months before. The Olympics must not be allowed to serve as a cover for Diaz plans for silencing students with genuine grievances...
...That is an absurdity in Mexico City, an absurdity that can be exposed by the athletes. Their refusal to participate would be recognized by the world and would force a rethinking of the political implications of the Olympics as well as denounce the act of butchery committed by the Mexican government...
...Gene girl maced is a Cliffie gassed; and that a Mexisan student shot is a student dead everywhere tomorrow--unless all student voices are heard in solidarity against such acts of repression and horror. It is not enough today to have the SDS demonstrate in front of the Mexican consulate. Every campus newspaper should be speaking, including the CRIMSON. Mrs. James M. Ansara