Word: mexicanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mexico is known for its relaxed and relatively conservative state government. But there was nothing mellow or complacent about the New Mexican who addressed the liberal Americans for Democratic Action in Los Angeles last week. "The hands that pick our lettuce, the hands that pick our cotton, are the hands that can pick the next President," thundered Governor Toney Anaya. "I will travel the length and width of this great nation as many times as I have to to ensure that Ronald Reagan is retired...
...years later, Anthony Quinn, 68, is once again playing Zorba, this time in the flesh. Looking a little older and maybe even wiser, Quinn this week opens in a Broadway revival of a 1968 musical version, which originally starred Herschel Bernard!. The intervening years have hardly mellowed the Mexican-born Quinn's old-fashioned machismo. "Men don't know where they are with this women's liberation," he says. "I don't see many men today. I see a lot of guys running around television with small waists. But I don't see many...
...serve as President Carter's ambassador to Mexico. Though he was initially criticized for not spending enough time meeting with American businessmen there ("I didn't throw too many cocktail parties for corporate representatives." Lucey explains), he was successful in negotiating an important natural gas agreement with the Mexican government...
...scandal came to the surface in August, when Salvador Barragán Camacho, leader of the powerful Oil Workers' Union of the Mexican Republic, accused fellow Union Executive Héctor García Hernandez (alias El Trampas, the trickster) of stealing some $6.6 million in union funds. The overweight, droopy-eyed García promptly sold most of his Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather...
...García thought he was safe in Texas, he soon learned otherwise. According to McAllen police, two thugs kidnaped García at gunpoint early last month and spirited him to Mexico. There he was handed over to Mexican authorities, who slapped him behind bars on fraud charges. Garcia told officials that he feared for his life, probably with good reason. The day after his jailing, another union boss, Oscar Torres Pancardo, was killed in a mysterious crash. In an apparent attempt to disguise the circumstances, his bodyguards fatally shot Torres' driver in the head. At a rare...