Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking of thousands of lives lost, not hundreds." In the aftermath of the San Juan Ixhuatepec disaster, there have been calls to shut down or relocate the refinery to more isolated quarters, but either course would cost a prohibitive $300 million. "High risk," said a report by the Mexican presidential commission on industrial accidents, "should not be interpreted as imminent danger...
...higher than a ten-story apartment building. Should a plane from nearby Newark International Airport crash into that complex, the resulting fireball could engulf one of the most heavily populated areas of the nation. Fire drills at plants in northern New Jersey have been stepped up since the Mexican explosion...
...bust of the century," said Jon Thomas, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. Mexican drug agents, with the cooperation of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials, seized and destroyed a record 9,000 tons of marijuana in raids on five plantations in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. (The previous record drug bust took place in 1978, when 570 tons of marijuana were seized in Colombia.) In the U.S., the Mexican pot would have had a street value of about $4 billion, according to Mexican judicial officials. The sheer volume may prompt a reassessment of drug...
...mass funeral-which was also the 74th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and therefore had to be commemorated, after a moment of silence, by a marathon and a parade-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and several top officials helicoptered into ruined San Juan Ixhuatepec...
Pemex's safety record is spotty. A 25,000-gal. gasoline-storage tank exploded in the central Mexican city of Tula last January. No one was injured then, but one died and 33 were hurt in another explosion in June in the state of Tabasco. A week later, a pipeline leak in Veracruz intoxicated 16. Inhabitants of San Juan Ixhuatepec claim a fire broke out there last June, but neighborhood protests got nowhere. Pemex Spokesman Salvador del Rio denies this, saying that there were no recent fires and that maintenance was "done continually...