Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largely at Rubin's urging that a multi-billion dollar infusion into the post-NAFTA Mexican economy was made. The realization--and the subsequent attitudinal change by United States policy makers--that our economy is inextricably linked with Mexico's, and increasingly with other American countries, is the true measure of NAFTA's success. The nightmarish debt-crisis of the 1980s, which left most Latin American economies devastated and smoldering, is unlikely to be repeated. There is now too much at stake for North Americans for summary abandonment...
After a hard day's acting, some Hollywood screen sirens like to unwind with a good book of Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew...
CHARGED. HOWARD STERN, 41, radio "shock jock"; with disorderly conduct; by a judge in Harlingen, Texas. Stern's on-air mocking of slain Mexican-American singing star Selena could earn him a $500 fine if he ever sets foot in the Lone Star State...
...total of 15 members. Among them are a couple of grad students, two alums, one members of the community, but we're primarily undergraduates," he says. "What I think is neat is that not everyone in the group is of Mexican descent. We've got a girl from Utah whose parents are both English...
THIS IS THE STORY of two young collegestudents in the Boston area who came up withanother idea for life after college, and who nowwrite each oth-B-12the masterful El Vez ["the Mexican Elvis"] &friends...