Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story begins New Years' Eve, 1970, when Fuentes, an acclaimed Mexican novelist, meets Diana Soren. From there, the reader is carried through FBI intrigue, encounters with the Black Panthers, sexual jealousy with Mexican revolutionaries. This novel leaves no stone untouched. It is an extraordinary chronicle of a history intertwined with art, and forever surrounded by love, lust, and humiliation...
...pretext for a larger commentary on the destructive devices of the United States as a whole. Fuentes always makes the distinction between the world of the "gringos" and his own, that of Mexico: "I looked at the sleeping Diana. She lived in the world of instantaneous gratification... A Mexican, no matter how much he travels the world, is anchored in a society of need." Fueled by a life of gratification, North Americans have an irrational but insatiable desire for upward mobility. According to Fuentes, they never experienced an equivalent of the Middle Ages, when permanence of station was the only...
Playing the populism game could be tricky for them too. Though he did it with Republican support, Bill Clinton is the President who pushed through NAFTA, GATT and the Mexican bailout. And it's hard for a sitting President to tell even a minority of voters that they aren't doing as well as they were four years ago. But Democrats have the advantage of being able to taunt Republicans for their opposition to raising the minimum wage, for wanting to cut the earned-income tax credit and for their free-floating hostility to labor unions. Says Labor Secretary Robert...
...border. On a typical mild winter day last month, more than 7,000 Americans lined up at pharmacy counters in Los Algodones--up from 3,000 a day just two years ago. The number of drugstores, meanwhile, has tripled over the past five years, from 10 to 30. Lately, Mexican dentists and optometrists have added their own discount services as well. "It's busier than ever," says Maria Dolores, head of a local tourist agency. "People find out that the dentists are good and the drugs are the same ones as in the U.S., so they tell their friends...
...CITIZENS SHOULD REALIZE THAT when any merchandise, including drugs or cash, moves across the Mexican-U.S. border in either direction, it is inspected by both U.S. and Mexican customs authorities, each acting independently. Mexican officials and even Cabinet members, as your report suggests [WORLD, Jan. 29], can sell their protection, but this protection ends for reasons of sovereignty at the border. After that, it is in the hands of U.S. officials. How do drugs reach the streets of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities? Is it a mystery to Americans? SERGIO E. DE REGULES Naucalpan, Mexico...