Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real place to crack down should be in Loker Commons. When was the last time an employee at the coffee shop or Mexican place checked your picture against your face? What if some poor first-year dropped his or her ID while staring at the Alice in Wonderland display screen and came back later to find the ID stripped of all its Crimson cash...
...recent years Mexico has replaced Panama as the leading drug-money Laundromat in Latin America. And much of the money stays in Mexico. Aided by lax government regulation and the willingness of Mexican banks to accept suitcases full of cash without asking questions, drug barons have been able to squirrel billions of dollars into legitimate businesses; Garcia Abrego owns dozens of such businesses, including computer stores, car dealerships and meat-packing plants. The effect on the economy can be pernicious. Since businesses supplied with capital from drug dealing don't have to worry about profits, efficiency or paying interest, they...
...timing of Garcia Abrego's arrest has raised questions. On March 1, Clinton is due to grade or "certify" Mexico for its antinarcotics efforts, and Zedillo has been accused by Mexican and U.S. critics of conveniently offering up Garcia Abrego to ensure that Mexico is treated to a favorable review. Since Garcia Abrego has been losing ground for a couple of years, the theory goes, his arrest is really only a token, while more powerful drug barons are allowed to operate. Yet Zedillo does seem to be more sincere about curbing corruption and the drug trade than some...
...Time Present, Time Past is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues. It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers: he has to add a litany of nine, from the Ohio to the Penobscot. Most Angelenos of Mexican heritage, he notes, are laborers--documenting the obvious by reeling off 14 trades in which they are employed...
...Mexican authorities arrested and promptly deported to the U.S. Juan Garcia Abrego, one of the hemisphere's top suspected drug lords. Garcia Abrego, whom the FBI had placed on its 10-most-wanted list, faces trial in Houston on charges of running one of the region's most powerful cocaine operations. Authorities say his group is notorious for both its murderousness and its capacity for dispensing bribes. The U.S. hailed the Mexican action as sign of increasing drug cooperation...