Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who has been under intense pressure to end the year-old rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas, dispatched hundreds of troops and police to capture the leaders of the uprising. For the first time, Zedillo identified the elusive guerrilla commander, known as "Subcomandante Marcos," by his full name: Rafael Sebastian GuillEn Vicente...
...1940s it had tried to offer them a separate facility in the basement.) Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare found that the school had still failed to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. Soon after, the university adopted a new admissions policy: black or Mexican-American applicants would now be considered by a separate committee and admitted under lower standards than those required of whites. After four white students were rejected in 1992, they brought suit. Last year a federal judge ruled that the two-track system was an unconstitutional denial of equal protection. Because...
Even Israel, the only country to side with the U.S. in a recent United Nations vote condemning the American trade embargo, does business with Cuba: Israeli firms are second only to Mexican companies in textile investments. These days, the palm-lined patio at the elegant La Ferminia restaurant in suburban Flores is jammed with foreign businessmen power-lunching with government ministers and discreetly whispering into their cellular phones...
...latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon be possible. Drawn by the promise of pent-up demand and the conviction that, in the words of a confidential British report to investors, the reform process is ``cohesive, systematic and unstoppable,'' Canadian, Mexican and European businessmen are taking the gamble...
After days of hunting Zapatista rebels in the southern Chiapas state, Mexican officials declared that "order and legality have been re-established in the region." If so, it has come about in a most brutal fashion. TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez reports from Chiapas that as guerilla leaders have taken refuge in the jungle, the Mexican military has cut off virtually all their supply lines. Government tanks and transports have poured into dozens of villages, frightening thousands of people who had secretly fed and supported the Zapatistas into fleeing into the jungle. Lopez reports: "They...