Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MILE NORTH OF THE MEXICAN BORDER, CALIF...
THERE ARE some of the sad but true facts I learned while on a trip to the San Ysidro Mexican border. I have already taken much flak from friends for being in the second car of a high speed chase during which the Border Patrol scared a truckful of illegal aliens back through a hole in the fence to Mexico...
South Padre Island began catching on with youth in 1982, as the decline of the peso spelled economic disaster for Mexican owners of the island's high- rise condominiums. Many of these units went on the market as short-term rentals. Thus for much less than the $140 price of a cramped hotel room, students can pool their resources for a two-bedroom luxury suite. Because it is only a 30-minute drive to the Mexican border, South Padre Island has benefited as more states raised their drinking age to 21. Last week chartered buses delivered revelers to the cantinas...
Harvard students will have to go elsewhere for pitchers of strawberry margueritas and nachos as Chi-Chi's, a Mexican restaurant just outside the Square, closed last week...
...unwritten party rule that a presidential aspirant must not show his ambition. Hence, in the coming weeks, the three favored sons can be expected to continue a game of demurral and humility. But when the die is cast, the Mexican public will be looking for some sign that a democratic opening is on the agenda for Mexico's future leader...