Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico, as shown in the results of a Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman poll taken for TIME, tend to be so critical. One day after the presidential meeting, Washington officials reported that Victor Cortez Jr., 34, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been kidnaped in Guadalajara and brutally tortured by Mexican state officials before being released. An incensed Attorney General Edwin Meese responded to the news of the Cortez detention in a television interview by serving notice that the U.S. "is not going to stand for this kind of conduct...
...with more than $100 million in new equipment will join the border war against drugs. Indeed, said Meese, the effort was the "most widespread interdiction program on our land borders in law- enforcement history." In calling for invigorated efforts to crack down on drugs, President Reagan tactfully acknowledged the Mexican view of the problem by promising to fight consumption within the U.S. as well as production abroad...
...Madrid remained optimistic and diplomatic throughout his 48-hour stay. On the issue of drugs, the 51-year-old technocrat pledged to keep fighting the illegal trade, while reminding his American listeners that 25,000 Mexican officials are working full time on the issue and that in the past three years, they have destroyed enough drug-growing plantations "to intoxicate a population twice the size of the U.S." He scotched reports that an agreement would be reached entitling U.S. planes to pursue drug traffickers across the border and into Mexico...
...economic front, the Mexican President took pains to acknowledge Washington's assistance last month in securing for Mexico a $12 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund. The eleventh-hour breakthrough in the negotiations, helped by Treasury Secretary James Baker and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, saved Mexico from defaulting on its nearly $100 billion foreign debt, the largest in Latin America except for Brazil...
...supportive words in Washington, there were plenty of reminders in Mexico last week of the country's continuing problems. Just before the Presidents met, the price of gasoline went up, unannounced and overnight, by an average of 36%. The following day Mexican authorities seized almost half a ton of cocaine at the border, their third biggest haul in the country's history. A couple of days later the former chief of the federal judicial police in Guadalajara, Armando Pavon Reyes, was sentenced to four years in prison for having accepted $100,000 in bribes from Rafael Caro Quintero, an arrested...