Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug trade is controlled by perhaps a dozen Mexican "mafiosos," some of whom live south of the border. The mafiosos are assuming new muscle as Mexico's economy declines and illegal aliens pour into Texas. Drug gangs have enlisted wetbacks as couriers, paying them $150 or more to float sacks of pot across the Rio Grande. Many illegals stay on to become full-time drug runners...
...International made money, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night was climbing the 1964 record charts. Last week brought more bad news for the second largest U.S. wire service, which emerged from bankruptcy proceedings last June when it was bought by Mexican Newspaper Publisher Mario Vazquez Rana. The New York Times revealed that on Dec. 31 it would cancel its basic contract with U.P.I. (The Times still wants to use the wire's photo service.) Estimated cost of the dropped service: close to $1 million a year. The paper apparently aims...
Last summer, the native of Storrs, Connecticut went to Mexico to do research for her senior thesis on refugees from the Spanish Civil War who took asylum in the Mexican Embassies. Although international law in the 1930s dictated that Mexico--which was antifascist and leftist--had to accept all political refugees, these Spanish refugees were mostly conservative and fascist sympathizers...
...chief elements of the bill have been floating around Capitol Hill since 1982. But pressure for action did not crest until this year, when the deteriorating Mexican economy increased the already heavy flow of illegal aliens across the Rio Grande. U.S. border patrols are expected to apprehend some 1.8 million illegal aliens this year, 500,000 more than in 1985. By some estimates, for every person caught, another will get through. Meanwhile, public outcries against terrorism and drug traffic translated into a fear of open borders to the south. "It was a combination of things," said Representative Leon Panetta...
Chances are that if you hit Harvard Square Sunday afternoon you were lassoed into a juggling act, were engulfed with the Oompah-pah music of the Hofbrau Boys Bavarian Band, or were enticed by the mixed aromas of Mexican tacos, fried dough or Italian sausage that filled...