Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon, a military official said hopefully, "Risner is a pro. A guy like this is just liable to come walking outta there one of these days." Once before, back in 1949, after his P-51 was blown off course and landed in the Mexican jungle, Risner had been given up for lost only to emerge three days later astride a burro. This time the odds were against him. Thanh Hoa is alive with North Vietnamese troops...
...almost three hours he spoke, finding something to say to every Mexican...
...small, noisy groups of leftists, he had a warning not to endanger the Mexican consensus by inciting strikes, disorders and sedition. For the anti-gringo nationalists, he criticized U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. For Washington, which has provided massive loans and grants, there was praise for the Alliance for Progress (something that his predecessor, Adolfo López Mateos, never found it in his heart to do). For Mexico's ballooning middle class, there was a call to partnership with the public sector in building new businesses and factories. For the progress-minded, there was a rattling...
...enshrined in Mexico's constitution of 1917. Individual peasants are given the use of small farms on government reserves or expropriated land, which they can transfer to their children but cannot sell or mortgage to obtain desperately needed bank loans. The result is the atomization of landholdings: most Mexican farms average 15 acres in size. Grinding poverty has led to peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters. Díaz Ordaz, faithful to tradition, cannot bring himself to modify...
Sounding remarkably like the President of the country to the north, Díaz Ordaz summed up by telling the Mexican Congress that the government has the "unavoidable obligation to watch over the people of Mexico and the destiny of the Mexican nation...