Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daniel Ortega hinted that the hapless gunrunner might be pardoned and released by Christmas. But since then some Sandinista militants and officials have taken a tougher stance. Last week Ortega seemed prepared to sidestep the issue and dump the problem of Hasenfus' future on Washington. In an interview with Mexican reporters, Ortega said he was waiting to see if the Reagan Administration would acknowledge responsibility for Hasenfus and his aborted mission...
...push him beyond ingenious deployments of volume and line. He took off for Mexico with his lover Tina Modotti and one of his sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits show that Weston had absorbed the principles delivered...
...forest nestled in the mountains of central Mexico.* Though the butterfly migration has been going on since at least the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 10,000 years ago, the isolated roosts were discovered by zoologists only in 1975. Alarmed by the disappearance of forests around the sites, the Mexican government and private conservation groups have joined forces to protect them. Says University of Florida Zoologist Lincoln Brower: "We're dealing with one of the most fragile as well as limited habitats in North America...
...corrupting influence of drug money frequently leads to tensions between lawmen on opposite sides of the border. U.S. officials say rogue Mexican cops sometimes provide armed escorts for truckloads of dope moving north to the States. Mexican police have accused Starr's sheriff, Eugenio Falcon Jr., of invading a hospital south of the border in Reynosa and murdering a drug runner who was a suspect in a Starr County multiple killing. "The charges are ridiculous," insists Falcon...
...drug traffic increases, author- ities are counting on "Operation Alliance," the Reagan Administration's recently announced antidrug program, for more agents and equipment. But local lawmen fear that the expensive new enforcement program, which extends along the entire length of the Mexican border, will not succeed unless Starr's citizenry can be enlisted in the war against drugs. At present many residents regard the narcotraficantes as local heroes, and their exploits are celebrated in ballads called corridos, which play on radio stations. In the river hamlet of Fronton, a monument was erected to mark a smuggler's death...