Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this kind of populist blast--a picture painted by Limbaughs and cartoonists across the U.S. of a President extending a hand to Wall Street and ailing foreign countries--that convinced Clinton he had to bypass Congress altogether. With the Mexican peso sliding, only $3.5 billion left in Mexican currency reserves and financial markets throughout Latin America on the brink of collapse, the President last week invoked his executive authority to grant Mexico $20 billion in loans and loan guarantees as the centerpiece of a coordinated bailout. Following Washington's lead, the International Monetary Fund agreed to provide Mexico with...
...Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo this morning sent thousands of troops to southern Mexico's Chiapas state to flush out the Zapatista resistance. Unconfirmed reports gauged the force at 40,000 soldiers, a much larger military action than the government has so far been willing to undertake. Thursday, Zedillo reversed Mexico's policy of trying to make peace with the Zapatista National Liberation Army by promising to help the poor. Instead, he ordered the arrest of top guerrilla leaders after accusing them of "preparing new and great acts of violence, not only in Chiapas but in other parts of the country...
William L. Fash has joined the faculty of the anthropology department as Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology...
...importance of process to this art cannot beexaggerated. As the installation progresses, andSpero learns that many of the pieces in theSackler's collection are funerary, she decides toinclude a Mexican image of a skeleton. "Isn't itscary?" she asks, holding up the black stencil ofa shrouded skeleton...
...been relying on foreign investment to underpin financial reform and build prosperity will have to do with less as a result of the cooling of investor ardor. Argentina, which like Mexico has an overvalued currency and carries substantial foreign debt, has watched $1.8 billion flee the country since the Mexican devaluation, despite firm promises by the government that the Argentine peso will not be devalued. Last year $11 billion flowed into Argentina in direct and indirect investment; this year the amount is expected to drop by as much as half. ``There is a crisis of confidence and some fears that...