Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very contradictory. Whatever the U.S. does is unacceptable and useless. Those are contradictory statements, but we have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude. There is an obvious element of humiliation in the fact that we are not able to provide jobs for our own people. The only way many Mexicans can find a decent job is to go to the U.S. On the other hand, it's a fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers to give Mexican workers a job, and a lot of Mexican immigrants do jobs that...
...reaction toward the ditch is simply one more episode in this very contradictory and ambivalent attitude. Every reasonable Mexican knows that the U.S. can dig as many ditches as it wants and that it has the right to do so. On the other hand, there is an aggressive, arrogant touch to the idea of a ditch. A ditch has water; it has crocodiles, piranhas, or sharks. The idea of a ditch to stop emigration from Mexico is one that shakes Mexicans because it reminds us that so many of our people have to go, and it shows how vulnerable...
...Americans are often angered by what appears to be Mexican complacency in combatting the flow of illegal drugs across the border. How do Mexicans view the U.S. drug problem...
...difference in perception stems from one very basic fact: Mexico does not have a drug-addiction problem. Some drugs have been consumed in Mexico for many years -- marijuana has been smoked in Mexican army barracks for well over a century now -- but there is no major drug problem here in terms of Mexican youth, in terms of addiction and consumption. There is a drug-production problem and a drug-trafficking problem, but addiction is not affecting broad sectors of Mexican society, as of today. So inevitably that leads everyone in Mexico to view the problem of drugs as less important...
...Mexican accord is the first concrete result of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's four-month campaign to break the impasse on Third World debt by persuading commercial banks to accept some cuts in the principal or interest rates of their loans. Brady's predecessor, James Baker, whose 1985 debt plan provided for no such relief, had failed to ease the problem. With the Mexican accord in hand, Brady hopes that similar agreements between the banks and other developing countries may soon be worked...