Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high derrick that Occidental plans to build will bear little resemblance to 17 other rigs in Los Angeles. Replete with white stucco and red Mexican tile, it will be disguised as a Spanish bell tower. Still, opponents are circulating petitions for a ballot initiative to prohibit drilling within 1,000 feet of the coast...
Upset by U.S. complaints, Mexican officials point out that in the same year in which Camarena was murdered, twelve members of a Mexican antidrug unit were killed, presumably by drug thugs. The Mexicans note that the estimated $130 billion spent annually on drugs by U.S. users could pay off the entire Mexican foreign debt. Complains Leonardo Ffrench, a press officer at the Mexican embassy in Washington: "It is deeply unfair and even ridiculous that some officials of a country like the United States, which has not been able to solve its own drug problems, keep blaming other countries with...
...coca leaves out of circulation. But while it makes sense to tackle the drug problem at its source, the narcotics trade is proving to be hydra-headed: as soon as one area is cleared, another opens up. "Eradicating crops has the same effect as an atomic bomb," says a Mexican official. "It destroys what it hits, but the contamination spreads all around...
...most abusers, the U.S. Though the drug traffickers seem to have the momentum to carry on, the forces of law-and-order are making some gains. U.S. military advisers are quietly training Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian police units for such basic maneuvers as helicopter raids on processing plants. The Mexican military is waging a campaign to persuade farmers in poppy-growing areas to switch to other crops. "Ultimately, this is a battle for minds and will," says U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle, who is prosecuting the case against Lehder. "It is a genuine...
According to legend, the site of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, was revealed to its founders by an eagle bearing a snake in its claws - and alighting on a cactus. That image is now the official seal of the country and appears on its flag. Thus Mexican authorities were furious this month when they discovered their beloved eagle splattered with catsup by an interloper from north of the border: McDonald...