Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Alvarez del Castillo...
...Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and which could reduce Mexico's debt load by as much as 20%, is enough to jump-start the country's stalled economy. And even if it can, there is no guarantee that the effects will trickle down to the middle- and lower-class Mexicans who need help desperately. Says a U.S. State Department official, with considerable understatement: "The average Mexican will have to ask himself the old Reagan question, 'Am I better off than I was four years ago?' The answer will have to be yes, or we could start to see some trouble...
Washington has made clear its willingness to help Salinas quietly in any way it can, but there is a growing perception among some U.S. officials that the Mexican leader is simply running out of time. If the country does not see tangible economic rewards within the next 18 months, a U.S. official says, "we could see frustrations acted out in the streets...
...more likely consequence is that the P.R.I., faced with the prospect of social instability, would abandon current economic reforms for quick-fix policies that would mollify the masses. As Mexicans are fond of pointing out, their country has a long tradition of avoiding seemingly inevitable political upheaval. "The P.R.I. has an almost magical power to redirect itself to reflect the needs of the country," says a Mexican official. "And so we have the young technocrats running things. But if they should fail, then look for a wave of populism." If that happens, Salinas could easily turn against Washington...
...years riding the Harley express across the country delivering a variety of drugs -- first methamphetamines (called crank by the bikers and speed by city users), then cocaine, and now crank again. "When the good German meth was taken off the market by those guys in San Diego with the Mexican connection in 1981 or so, I decided I was too old to learn to cook ((manufacture synthetic drugs)) myself, so I just shifted over to coke...