Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Professionals. After coolly gunning down ten treacherous bandidos in a steamy Mexican arroyo, four scraggly do-gooders take a long look at the dead men's mounts. They hate killing horses, but you don't leave that kind of evidence roaming around. "They're harmless," says one. "Nothing's harmless in this desert unless it's dead," snaps a pardner. Though the horses are spared, everything else that moves is soon either dying, wounded or dodging...
Government policy is also a primary cause of the 10% rise in fruit and vegetable prices this year. Pressured by labor unions, the Government last January reduced the inflow of low-wage Mexican braceros who work in U.S. fields and orchards. Thus farmers had to hire domestic field hands, who demand higher wages and are reluctant to do such backbreaking "stoop labor...
Simmons, who was left behind to try to prove his innocence, had two Mexican lawyers, neither of whom spoke enough English to communicate with their bewildered client, one of whom is now a fugitive facing embezzlement charges. Though the defendant voluntarily took two lie-detector tests, which are sometimes admissible in Mexican courts, the inconclusive results were ignored. The murder gun was never found; a clear tire mark at the scene did not match Simmons' tires; hundreds of curiosity seekers obliterated all fingerprints on the death car before police thought of checking it for fingerprints...
...Hilda's alleged identification. Although an appellate court tossed out that key evidence as illegal in 1962, the original trial judge simply pronounced Simmons guilty once more on the basis of disputed facts and such other items as his falsified tourist card and "penal antecedents." In 1964 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld that verdict; last month Simmons' bid for legal exoneration by the state's governor was turned down...
Return of the Seven has plenty of action, nearly all of it generated by seven men working their jaws. Their conversation takes place in a Mexican village, where Yul Brynner and half a dozen unstable gun fighters fling up the barricades and begin intensive sessions of group therapy. At least it sounds that way. According to the plot, they are supposed to be fighting off a horde of bandits to protect 300 ignorant farmers who are being herded across the desert as slave labor to rebuild the local padre's church...