Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive west along the Mexican highway, listening to my car radio and its plaintive norteno corridos (a kind of Mexican country-and-western in which unrequited love, boozy camaraderie and unfaithful women are constant themes), I wonder about the growing clamor in the U.S. for more drug interdiction programs and even a military "sealing" of the border. Could a democracy manage such an operation in peacetime? And if the U.S. Government could not stop Americans from supplying guns to Colombia's drug cartel, what hope did it have of stopping non-Americans from catering to the U.S. addiction for drugs...
...Paso, directly across the border from Ciudad Juarez (the two cities' combined population exceeds 1.5 million). But for the narrow concrete channel that guides the Rio Grande through the urban sprawl, it would be difficult to pick out the boundary. There is synergy everywhere, from the maquiladoras on the Mexican side, where American manufacturers pay less than $1 an hour to a largely grateful work force, to the shops lining El Paso's Bridge Street, where Spanish is the vernacular...
...many differences abound, suggesting that even here the border is much more than just cartographical whimsy. Two American youths from El Paso were arrested and accused of killing a Mexican policeman and wounding another during a night out in Ciudad Juarez. On the U.S. side, outrage erupted over perceived weaknesses in the Mexican judicial system, with newspapers carrying stories of Mexican police corruption and the shakedowns that supposedly occur so frequently south of the border. But Mexican newspapers highlighted the fact that the slain policeman was the father of three and accused youthful American visitors of an arrogant belief that...
Long before I reach Arizona, I leave Highway I-10 and bump along ranch roads that bring the border back into view. In Columbus, N. Mex., which the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa raided in 1916, John Alcorn, 69, gestures in the direction of the border. "Had 16 teeth out and a new set of dentures made over in Palomas last week," he says, massaging his gums. "Would have cost me $2,000 in the U.S. I paid $600 over there, and the dentist did a damn good job." Health care is a relatively new economic trade-off, but the principles...
...that sounds more like something to be found on the approaches to the Berlin Wall, then it would probably surprise Americans to learn that foreigners entering the U.S. are often accorded a good deal less courtesy than they would expect, perhaps demand, from a Mexican official. Proffering my British passport, with its multiple-entry visa to the U.S. inside, to a Customs officer, the conversation goes like this...