Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those measures, his selection pleased foreign creditors (including U.S. bankers, who hold $25 billion in outstanding loans to Mexico). Many of the country's workers were far less enthusiastic, blaming Salinas for the economic belt tightening. Fidel Velazquez, 87, the venerable dean of the 4.5 million-member Confederation of Mexican Workers, pointedly walked out on Salinas' hourlong acceptance speech. Asked why he had left, Velazquez responded testily, "Because I felt like...
...State Department officials expressed surprise; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz and Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez were considered likelier choices. While Salinas, like De la Madrid, is favorably disposed toward Washington, he is expected to keep his distance lest he offend Mexican sensibilities. "Salinas is hardheaded enough to know that Mexico's future is bound to the U.S. and not to a tiny Third World country in Central America," says a European diplomat based in Mexico City, referring to Nicaragua. "But there has to be a little prickliness in the relationship for it to be right...
...Edgar C. Thompson, owner of The Llama Shop, a sweater store, "The Oktoberfest is an international festivity for every color, creed, and race." Close by the lederhosen and sauerbrauten in Harvard Square were Mexican, Indian, and Italian booths selling jewelry, food and clothing, native to their countries...
...that brief span of time, Cartier-Bresson took dozens of his best-known pictures: Spanish children playing in the rubble of a building, a reflected figure leaping across a puddle behind the Gare St.-Lazare, Mexican prostitutes popping weirdly out of doorway slots. Galassi is not the first to cite surrealism as the force that conferred upon this early work its compelling strangeness, but he makes the decisive case. By the end of this exhibit's seven-city tour -- it goes to Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Framingham, Mass., Houston and Ottawa through May 1989 -- no one will be able...
...fair to say that [Razo] represents Mexican-Americans," said Torres, who said the East Los Angeles football player had participated in a few Raza activities...