Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many years before the U.S. elects a black President-or, for that matter, a Mexican-American President or a Korean-American President. But it now becomes thinkable for a black child to entertain a fantasy that used to be advertised as every white boy's dream: that he might grow up to be President...
Directly, Bennie Atencio, the tribal secretary and brother of Domingo Atencio, called on Albuquerque Attorney Scott Borg. The photographer had been identified as Michael Heller, who had published the photographs of the Santo Domingo in the New Mexican, a Santa Fe newspaper. Atencio told Borg that "they wanted to sue them and sue them to make them hurt...
Other tribes may allow photographs or charge for photographs, said Borg, "but the Santo Domingo are the most conservative Indians in the state-and everybody knows it, especially the newspapers." The New Mexican is making no public comment; in fact, its editor, Larry Sanders, actually said, "No comment." The paper's lawyers have collected over 100 photographs of the Santo Domingo, the preponderance of them from the Museum of New Mexico, in an attempt to show that picture taking at the pueblo is nothing new and that the suit should be dismissed. Borg argues that the tribe has authorized...
...Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...
...their dream propels them through daunting encounters with everything from tunnel rats to border patrols. In one hilarious scene, Enrique makes use of a friend's advice to pepper his speech with the word "fuck" in order to convince a pair of immigration officers that he is a Mexican...