Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...striking the Mexican capital, the killer quake could not have chosen a more vulnerable target. Mexico City is at the heart of the world's most populous metropolitan area. Some 18 million people, a fourth of the nation's inhabitants, are jammed into a mere 890 sq. mi., or roughly 1% of the predominantly rural country's land area. By one estimate, nearly a third of all families in Mexico City huddle together in a single room--and the average family has five members...
...part by the collapse of Mexico City's main transmission tower prolonged the suspense. Only TV-13 provided information, and only to those who were fortunate enough to still have electricity; sections of the city were without power. A station in Bogota, Colombia, was able to monitor the Mexican channel's transmissions via satellite, and relayed the highlights to the outside world. International telephone and telex circuits were down and, as during the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, the first on-the-spot accounts came from amateur radio operators. Using battery-powered equipment, a handful of Mexico City hams...
Runways at Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport were largely intact, but flights into the stricken capital were halted for a while as officials checked for damage. By nightfall, Mexican airlines and most U.S. carriers resumed service. Some of the initial eyewitness accounts of the tragedy came from travelers on the first flights...
...team described as the key dealers in a baby-smuggling ring that may have sold as many as 150 infants to American couples in the past two years. Juanita Leyva-Vargas, 52, and her daughter Melinda, 25, were arrested in San Diego after they handed a five-day-old Mexican infant to Phil and Linda Phillips of Kalama, Wash. Authorities said the baby dealers operated from an unlicensed home for unwed Mexican mothers in nearby Tijuana. The ring allegedly received as much as $10,000 a child...
...adoption was legal. Other couples duped by the ring have been traced to eight states from California to New York. Authorities say they will allow these parents to keep their children if they were adopted innocently. The Tijuana ring is believed to have smuggled in nearly as many Mexican infants over the past two years as had come in legally for adoption...