Word: mexicanization
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...left three sealed boxes in the office of the Attorney General. The boxes, he said, contained documents proving his boss and two prominent officials of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I., had illegally attempted to block his investigation into the assassination of a leading politician. For a Mexican prosecutor to make a televised appearance is exceptional; to do so in order to call members of the P.R.I. "demons" and accuse them of unsubstantiated crimes is unprecedented. Yet the case that provoked Ruiz Massieu is deeply personal: the crime he has been investigating is the murder of his brother...
Ernesto ZedilloPonce de Leon, the reform-minded candidate of Mexico's ruling PRI party, was sworn in as his country's president today promising a war against poverty -- an effort to provide "dignified living conditions for every Mexican family." The inauguration followed a rough-and-tumble year that saw theassassinations of his party's first candidateand its secretary-general, plus anIndian rebellionand the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 42-year-old, U.S.-educated economist -- speaking before 1,500 Mexican officials as well as foreign leaders as diverse as Vice President Al Gore and Cuba's Fidel...
...Mexican-American mother called to say her sick two-year-old had been left waiting five hours, then was turned away with only cursory examinations on two successive nights at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Hayward, California, 30 miles from San Francisco. Limp, dehydrated and near death, the child was finally admitted on the third day -- and immediately attached to an IV. Then, as she sat by her child's bed, the mother, a legal resident, was asked for her immigration papers. A Kaiser spokeswoman said the policy is to ask for insurance papers but not for immigration documents...
Another threat to the plan comes from Mexico, which has seemingly few intentions to cooperate. Says Fernando Estrada Samano, a National Action Party deputy: "We will not stop migrant workers from looking for a better quality of life in the U.S." Social strains are already being felt on the Mexican side of the border. In Tijuana, where much of its floating population of 15,000 migrant workers found itself stranded, petty crime has risen 10% since Operation Gatekeeper began. Thousands of workers who used to commute to jobs in El Paso to work are now without wages and have little...
...party's reform-minded secretary-general. He then resigned from his post and the PRI. At an angry, 45-minute news conference this morning, Mario Ruiz Massieu said he's given the government evidence that the PRI's president and secretary-general (the second- and third-most powerful Mexican officials ) had blocked his investigation into the shooting of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu , Mexico's No. 2 official and a future presidential contender. He also said his boss, Attorney General Humberto Benitez Trevino, joined in the cover-up. Ruiz Massieu distributed a 97-page book he said contained "proof...