Word: mexicans
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Cardenas was born in 1934, the year his father became President. In a gesture of populism, Lazaro Cardenas abandoned Chapultepec Castle, in which the Emperor Maximilian and nearly all subsequent Mexican rulers lived. Instead, the President, his wife and his son -- who was named for the last Aztec emperor and whose name is pronounced Kwa-tay-mok -- moved into Los Pinos, a white stone box set in a corner of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. "I have only isolated images of it," says Cardenas of his boyhood home. "But one thing I do remember: I was given every possible opportunity...
...descendants of communal arrangements that originated centuries ago. In many countries, groups of people have long pooled their cash to allow members to bury their dead or to celebrate marriages. Modern-day clubs retain much of that social flavor. In a 1981-83 study of 50 people in Mexican and Mexican-American tandas (turns), Carlos Velez-Ibanez, an anthropologist at the University of Arizona, found that 17% cited family obligations such as weddings, baptisms and funerals as reasons for their participation. Each gathering of a keh, notes Sungsoo Kim, president of the Korean-American Small Business Center of New York...
...small cottage on a dirt road in Mission, Texas. "Big Lloyd" arrived in Texas from South Dakota with $1.50 in his pocket and became one of the largest landowners in the Rio Grande Valley. He started his empire with a grocery and a land-clearing operation. He hired Mexican laborers to clear the land, and instead of paying them half the contract price, as was the custom, he paid them the full amount -- but in scrip good only in the grocery store. Soon he was buying the land he was clearing; the small cottage gave way to a sprawling ranch...
...margin large enough to establish Salinas' authority and credibility but not so large as to trigger charges of fraud. As confusion over the vote mounted, it became evident that while the P.R.I. had gained the presidency, the days of one-party rule were numbered. "This country," predicted Mexican Political Scientist Jorge Castaneda, "will never be the same...
After dominating Mexican politics for 59 years, the P. R. I. loses its ballot- box hegemony as opposition candidates make historic gains. -- An interview with the apparent winner, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. -- Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott visits the fortified Sino- Soviet border and reports on the prospect of replacing guns with trade. -- An oil rig explodes off the coast of Scotland...