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...RAZA, Harvard's Mexican-American and Chicano club, socializing and activism conflict not in theory, but in the pocketbook...
...club also joined with students from the Kennedy School to show the PBS series "Chicano Movement" to interested students. Montoya describes the series as "a whole history of the Mexican-American civil rights struggle...
...millionaire publisher instead advocated reduced government interference in financial relief efforts. For example, he said the recent catastrophic devaluation of the Mexican peso would not have happened without the interference...
JOHN TORRENCE, 37; ORANGE, CALIF.; embroidery-shop owner After putting in a full week at his shop, he devotes 50 hours to heavy lifting across the border. A member since he was 21, he is now president of Corazon, a volunteer program that replaces the shanties of poor Mexican families with sturdier dwellings. Under his leadership, Corazon has more than quadrupled the number of homes it builds (65 last year). But, he says, "it's not the houses we care about; it's the people inside...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Federal agents say they have broken up a Mexican-Colombian drug ring, arresting dozens of people across the country Thursday in an operation code-named "Zorro-II." The government charged 29 with conspiracy, and an additional 136 were arrested. Attorney General Janet Reno said the operation is the first undertaken by the Drug Enforcement Administration that targets a cocaine ring's top organizational structure down to the street-level crack cocaine distributors. "It's the first case involving a Mexican distribution net of cocaine," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "The Mexican cocaine distribution network represents a new trend...