Word: mexicans
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...POOR MEXICO," the saying goes, "so far from god and so close to the United States." Coined by a Mexican president in the late 1800s, the saying remains ample evidence of the fear and mistrust Mexicans have always felt toward their northern neighbor. Not without reason: In a war largely forgotten on this side of the Rio Grande, the U.S. in 1848 seized almost half of Mexico's territory. In 1914 and 1916 we invaded Mexico again, to control a revolution whose outcome we feared...
...York Times bureau chief in Mexico City, Riding has developed an understanding of this complex nation equaled by few. In Distant Neighbors be shares the wealth, explaining the intricacies of a complex nation. Distant Neighbors' best moments come early in the book, as Riding methodically dissects Mexican culture, language and lifestyle. He understands the peculiarities of Mexico's historical legacy and the influence this legacy has in a nation preoccupied with its past. He also explains the ambivalence Mexicans have toward the giant to the north a nation they regard with a mixture of fear and envy...
...easy to accurately describe a political system which rules by myth. While ostensibly a democracy. Mexico has been ruled by the same party, the PRI, since 1920. The PRI (Party of the Institutional Revolution) began as the centrist party which emerged from the tumult of the Mexican revolution and has steadily consolidated power ever since. Its leadership has never hesitated to cajole or co-opt the wayward peasant leader or union boss. If all else fails, the PRI retains a powerful ability to repress its more intransigent opponents...
This political stability, however, may well be illusory. The system leans heavily on the memory of the revolution, the decade-long civil war which began in 1910. The revolution's myth contrasts sharply with Mexican reality; It gave peasants erstwhile control over their land, installed a democratic system that has never functioned as such, and instituted a broad program of social reform whose effects, 65 years later, have yet to be felt...
Jewett said that Southern applicants to Harvard were stronger this year than in years past. He added that the College had admitted 11 Mexican Americans, higher than last year, and 22 Blacks, roughly equal to last year's total despite the increase in all applicants...