Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulties that lie ahead still loom large, given past obstacles, leaders at Harvard say. La O, Harvard's Puerto Rican students' association, and Raza, the University's Mexican-American organization, announced they have been negotiating with Harvard for more than a year to provide courses on Hispanic studies. According to La O leader Wendell C. Ocasio '90, La O even presented Harvard officials with the name of a professor at Puerto Rico University who could teach such a course...
...general and current strongman of the 200,000-member oilworkers union, Hernandez, nicknamed La Quina, had built up a personal fortune and a large following among those beholden to him for jobs, education and health care. Many of the area's poor people regarded him as something of a Mexican Robin Hood. The enmity between Salinas and Hernandez dates back to the President's tenure as Secretary of Planning and Federal Budget in the administration of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. At that time, Salinas accused both the oil union and Pemex, the state oil company, of inefficiency...
...sister putting herself through this torture for a college that's devaluing faster than the Mexican peso? Maybe she is applying because over the phone I recite all of the good things Harvard still represents...
...Research, whose staff helped plan the agenda. The Soviets were particularly open in what they revealed both about their country's environmental woes and on a personal level. At one point Thompson challenged Morgun to a game of eight ball on a barroom pool table in Juanita's, a Mexican restaurant. To his shock, Thompson not only got his match, but was soundly beaten...
...more privileged, those scenes look like a science-fiction vision of civilization's breakdown, perhaps after a nuclear war. In fact, Mexico City has been described as the anteroom to an ecological Hiroshima. With 20 million residents -- up from 9 million only 20 years ago -- the Mexican capital is considered the most populous urban center on earth. Mexico City has been struck not by military weapons but by a population bomb...