Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford made clear during the week that his foreign policy will rest on personal efforts at diplomacy. Next week he will meet with Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez at Nogales, on the Arizona-Mexico border. In November, Ford will travel to the Far East to visit with Japanese and South Korean leaders. During that trip he may meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, depending on Kissinger's success in an upcoming meeting with Soviet officials in Moscow. In December, Ford will hold talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Washington and later that month with French President...
...started as a virtual dilettante, making a brief tour of Mississippi in 1962 to learn something about race problems. In 1968, he took part in demonstrations for ending the Viet Nam War, his main cause. In 1969, Brown briefly trudged California's dusty roads with Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American who was leading his crusade to organize migrant farm workers...
...many undergraduates to exercise the option of the leaves of absence, by departing after his second year to spend two years before the mast and see the world. There is John Reed, who used his Harvard education to help him write poetry in Greenwich Village, to cover the Mexican Revolution as a news correspondent and to write a book on the Russian Revolution that would lead to the adoption of his names as the titles of Communist groups in America. James Agee, who traveled to the South to report on the life of the rural poor, wrote that his favorite...
...increasingly exposed to the pressures of industrialization prevalent throughout Latin America, it will be assimilated into the national, Western-like culture the cities represent. The children of the women who speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats and cabinets in front rooms of their houses will soon be replaced by mass...
...decades earlier their parents and grandparents farmed. In Bolivia peasants farming in the countryside set up blockades in the nation's highways and throw stones at army troops in protest of arbitrary price rises instituted by the military government. Like Emiliano Zapata, who 60 years ago helped fuel the Mexican Revolution by fighting to recover land which for centuries had belonged to his village, the unintegrated masses remain a constant threat to the impersonal process of industrial growth...