Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next stop was San Salvador, where he was almost mobbed by a cheering crowd as he rode along in an open, unprotected car (a rarity for any Latin American President). There, Díaz Ordaz promised technical assistance, preferential tariffs, private Mexican venture capital for developing Salvadoran industries. Also announced: a $6,000,000 loan to the four-year-old Central American Bank in Honduras...
...build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply: "Mexico does not seek for other nations what it is not disposed to accept for itself...
...sentimental, even corny way to begin the first visit by any Mexican President to Central America...
Ordaz hoped that it meant the beginning of a new era in Mexican foreign relations. After 55 years of a generally prosperous "continuing revolution," Mexico has become the stablest major state in Latin America and an outspoken independent in international affairs. But it has remained largely unconcerned about the five Central American republics south of its border...
...story of three generations of women who are chronic losers at love. With excellent dialogue and good characterization, the piece moves along, jumping (not always smoothly) from one "great line" to the next. The reader is delighted to see the entertainment at a bar, consisting of a Mexican guitar troupe and then eight violinists from Budapest who begin with the "Hungarian Rhapsody" and end with "Flight of the Bumblebee." But excellent though the details and lines may be, they often seem to exist merely for their own excellence and there is not a great continuity to the piece. The beginning...