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...Mexican immigrants, Gonzales’ path to HLS is as improbable as it is incredible...
...cross-border controversy last week with a new series of postage stamps of Memín Pinguín, a 1940s cartoon boy that resembles the Jim Crow-era caricatures of African Americans. The White House objected to the philatelic stereotyping, which follows President Vicente Fox's gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy González has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...
PROMISE "Old Fuss and Feathers" was a national hero from the Mexican War of 1846. He devised the "Anaconda Plan" to blockade the South's ports...
Cuba is one of those low-slung New Mexican adobe towns, a wide spot in the road, really, up on the Colorado Plateau, insight of the Jemez and the Nacimiento ranges of the Rockies. This time of year the country is golden with rabbit weed and chamiza (when the Spaniards first crossed these parts, they called it tierra amarilla, or yellow land), and the deep blue sky above it has no ceiling. In the first issue of the Cuba News--"the first edition of the first newspaper ever printed in this area"--an editorial declared that "we believe by letting...
...Killer Bee Barrier. $1 million was approved to prevent so-called African killer bees from continuing their migration north from Central America. The swarm is expected to reach the U.S.-Mexican border by 1991 and launch its assault on the domestic bee population. The money will be used to set up biological barriers to trap and kill them...