Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were not accompanied by other baffling events. On Christmas Island in the mid-Pacific, about 17 million sea birds have fled their ancient nesting grounds. Barracuda are unexpectedly appearing in the waters off Monterey, Calif. Marlin, red crabs, sea horses and other creatures usually found in warm Mexican waters are showing up as far north as San Francisco. High in the sky, westerly winds have been blowing so furiously toward the California coast that jets have cut their flying time from Hawaii by as much as an hour...
...that past experience suggests that 6.7% of total offshore oil production will spill into the sea because of such mishaps as blowouts, platform fires and other accidents. The world's largest oil spill, in fact, occurred in the Caribbean when a well being drilled by Pemex, the Mexican national petroleum company, blew on June 3, 1979. Before it was capped 290 days later, it had poured some 475,000 metric tons of oil into the sea. Scientists still cannot say what the effects were on the rich fisheries, coral reefs or sea-grass beds of the Caribbean basin...
Frida, a biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-54), is a mesmerizing story of radical art, romantic politics, bizarre loves and physical suffering that raises the question, Why hasn't someone told it all before? Part of the answer is that Kahlo was the wife of Diego Rivera, the muralist and cultural provocateur who overshadowed nearly everybody and everything he touched. He would, in fact, have dominated this book about his wife if Biographer and New York Art Critic Hayden Herrera had not put him in his place...
Mexico's and Brazil's near loan defaults are causing headaches for international bankers, but the devaluation of Mexican and Brazilian currency has been a boon to American travelers to these countries. Ellen W. Grinberg, an agent at Trips & Company, said her agency is offering a one-week package to Rio de Janeiro, including round trip airfare and hotel, for $499. "We see many students taking advantage of this," said Grinberg, who pointed out that the lowest scheduled airfare to Rio alone...
...Mexicans apparently will go along. In Paris last week, Mexican officials huddled with OPEC representatives from Venezuela, Algeria and Kuwait. According to OPEC sources, the Mexicans indicated that they would follow the organization's lead on pricing and hold their production to 1.5 million bbl. a day, no higher than the average level of last year...