Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family's most profitable enterprises. He has begun re-establishing the family's Southeast Asian connection, broken by federal narcotics agents six years ago. One sign of his success is the white Asian heroin that has begun reaching New York to compete with the more common Mexican brown...
...operation ran smoothly, according to Boyce, until Jan. 6, when Lee failed to find Grishin waiting for him at the Soviet embassy. Lee pitched a piece of paper through the embassy gate. Mexican police, who routinely guard the embassy, immediately seized him, apparently thinking he might have thrown a bomb. In Lee's pocket, the police allegedly found microfilmed documents from a feasibility study of an American spy communications satellite...
Stretching some 58 miles along the Rio Grande lies Starr County, Texas, a barren land of sagebrush and mesquite trees. Most of its 20,000 inhabitants are Mexican-Americans who scrape together a living as stoop laborers during the melon-picking season. Yet in the past two or three years, brick houses worth as much as $75,000 have sprung up among the pink and green shanties that line Route 83 between Roma-Los Saenz and Rio Grande City. Outside some of them sit new refrigerators still in their shipping cartons...
Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...
...Starr County drug trade has long been controlled by a few tightly-knit Mexican-American families who own land along the Rio Grande; in some cases, their relatives hold property on the Mexican side. For years they were virtually a law unto themselves. One of the indicted traffickers had even ordered auto license plates spelling out MAFIA. "They don't deal with anyone they don't trust," says Texas Antidrug Official Neal Duvall, "and they only trust family." According to a grand jury report, 10% to 35% of the population of Starr County have been involved...