Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...onda? That question, or its English equivalent--What's going on?--is being asked throughout Mexico, in Washington and on Wall Street. Is the Mexican government at war or peace with rebels in the southern state of Chiapas? Does the governing party's electoral defeat in Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara, and in the state of Jalisco portend a loss of political control or a heartening turn toward genuine democracy--or maybe both? Most important, does Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, less than three months into his six-year term, have a consistent strategy for dealing with...
...Chiapas a Zapatista calling herself Major Ana Maria read to Mexican reporters a communique, supposedly from Marcos, that said the Zapatistas were willing to negotiate, ``but it is necessary that the government takes out its troops first.'' Government officials, relying on information from a defector known as Subcomandante Daniel, who is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, insist that the movement is made up of a mere 130 ``professionals'' and 500 militiamen and is being torn by dissension over Marcos' allegedly authoritarian ways. If encircled and forced to hide in the jungle long enough, military planners...
...guacamole, alfalfa sprout and cheddar cheese affair, Donald R. Franklin '98 responds, "Oh my God. I've had one at the Union, and I don't know what makes it from California as opposed to any other state." Franklin, who lives in San Diego, goes on to say, "Mexican Toppers--that's about the only thing they get right that's Mexican. I should know because I live right next to Mexico...
...words between the government of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and Chiapas rebels ended last week, and real warfare resumed. In Nuevo Momon, a village in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, sniper fire rained down on a force of Mexican soldiers, killing two of them. Near the town of Cacalomacan, about 50 miles west of Mexico City, 250 police and soldiers surrounded a group of militants and flushed them out of a farmhouse after a two-hour gun battle. In other strongholds of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or E.Z.L.N., hundreds of heavily armed soldiers...
...Sure, the orca had all the fish he wanted, and kids loved him. But the 3.5-ton star of the hit movie Free Willy had outgrown his tank at a Mexico City amusement park, and he suffered from a herpes-like skin condition. After an outpouring of letters, his Mexican owners are donating him to a more spacious aquarium in Oregon, where he will be readied for a life of freedom in the waters off Iceland...