Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Richard Nixon declared an international "war on drugs," then pressed the Mexican government into joining the battle by cracking down on illegal narcotics traffic across the border. Mexico obliged with a vengeance, throwing into jail hundreds of American violators; most of them were "mules," who had been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval...
...with bad publicity and worried about the potential loss of tourist dollars, the Mexican government last year proposed a prisoner exchange. The U.S. Senate ratified a new treaty between the two countries, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on Oct. 31. Among the treaty's terms: Americans now imprisoned in Mexico would be eligible for transfer to U.S. jails, provided they had more than six months to serve on their sentences, had not been convicted of a political offense or breaking immigration laws and, a key condition, would not contest their Mexican convictions in U.S. courts. Parallel provisions...
...nearby power plant. Another charged that officials had ripped off one of her earrings-and her ear lobe. Male inmates reported being tortured with cattle prods while still dripping from a shower. According to Stark, some prisoners told of extortion demands of up to $40,000 by Mexican lawyers promising to get them released. Before he was transferred from Mexico City's Santa Marta prison, Frank Machado, 29, a Californian who has served five years for smuggling cocaine, said, "I got my nose broken and my eyes split open the first week. That was the cons...
Even some prison authorities concede life in their jails has been nasty, brutish and sometimes short. Says Juan Antonio Antolin, 31, who became director of Santa Marta seven months ago: "This was a pesthole beyond belief. It was run by drug traffickers, not the guards." Antolin claims a Mexican drug peddler offered him $10,000 a week to allow heroin to be smuggled into Santa Marta; when he refused, an attempt was made to kill...
Delegates at the Lehman Hall meeting suggested the Black Student Association, La Raza, a Mexican-American group, the Radcliffe Union of Students, La Organizacion, a group of Puerto Rican students and others as organization, that the committee might invite...