Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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High above the smog-smothered skyscrapers, on the parapets of Chapultepec Castle, the bronze statues of six young soldiers strike a gallant pose. The teenage cadets revered by every Mexican as the ``Boy Heroes'' died defending the fortress against Yanquis in 1847. Every Sept. 13, the President of Mexico, his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps assemble at the Mexico City fortress to recall the defeat that led to el despojo territorial, what Mexicans consider the unjust seizure of their land that now makes up California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico...
America the bully. America the bountiful. So it has always seemed from the Mexican side of the 2,000-mile-long divide. The peso's latest melodrama only proves the paradox in the eyes of many Mexicans. American investors pour speculative money into Mexico, then snatch it back when times grow hard and Mexico needs it most. The U.S. rides to the rescue, but imposes such harsh conditions that Mexico will be forced into recession...
...Americans barely remember the Alamo, Mexicans see past and present as an eternal tug-of-war with their northern neighbor. Virtually any Mexican high school graduate readily recites a litany of humiliations most Americans ignore: the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo forcing the sale of Mexico's northern half; a 1911 U.S.-supported coup; American invasions in 1914 and 1916; the expulsion of as many as 1 million Mexican immigrants from the U.S. during the 1950s' Operation Wetback. Now California's Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and health services to undocumented immigrants, is seen as an exercise in ethnic...
Grudges notwithstanding, perceptions are growing more sophisticated with the rapid rise of Mexican immigration to the U.S. and the explosion of commerce since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect last year. The border, Mexicans like to say, is mostly imaginary, despite patrols, guard dogs and chain-link fences. ``They could plant land mines, and it would not stop people from crossing,'' says Mexicali writer Sergio Gomez Montero. ``We may not like gringos for historical reasons, but today the world is dividing into commercial blocks, and we are handcuffed to each other for better or for worse.'' Travel...
...Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari began a hunger strike, demanding that his name be cleared of rumors that he allowed the coverup of an assassination. Salinas said: "It's a question of personal honor." The ex-president's downward slide began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas...