Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After doing time on a drug rap, Chico comes home chastened, then stumbles into every conceivable temptation. His parents object to the company he keeps, so he moves in with a chic call girl, played by fiery Mexican Beauty Kitty de Hoyos, whose claim to fame loses nothing in translation. Because his hooker cannot support both him and her drug habit forever, Chico starts peddling heroin, ultimately resumes using...
...million, 8% over last year. Bananas still provide $38 million (or 40%) of the country's export earnings, but the highly successful Central American Common Market has stimulated a mushrooming cluster of small industries (paint, synthetic rubber, flour mills) on the Caribbean coast, where Mexican investors soon hope to build a $12.5 million steel mill using native ore and charcoal...
...prototype of the Maheu approach is a Mexican project in which 600 students, selected for high motivation, learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in 30 lessons of 50 minutes each, carried by closed-circuit television. By such tactics, Mexico has managed to cut its illiteracy rate from 58% in 1940 to 37% today. Tanzania is leading 500,000 students through 90-minute classes three times a week for five months to become literate in Swahili. Iran, with an 80% rate in rural areas, drafts high school graduates into an "army of knowledge" for 14 months to teach in villages...
...brilliant Mexican poet, essayist, playwright and diplomat Octavio Paz has shown how his country's revolution and governmental intervention in economic life led to eventual diversified development. And as British Economist Dudley Seers et al, have put it in Cuba: The Economic and Social Revolution: "Almost any degree of disorganization would have been preferable to the complete failure in Cuba in earlier years to mobilize the factors of production...
...Abbey. On the other side, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, head of a new Vatican secretariat for dealing with nonbelievers, argued that the attitude of the church toward all men of good will-including atheists-should be one of dialogue, not damnation. And Mexican Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo of Cuernavaca suggested that the church should pay tribute to the views of a renowned atheist whom it has long deplored: Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Bishop Méndez argued that Freud's teachings constitute "a useful method of purification" and should be taken into account...