Word: mexico
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...rude awakening for Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, the strongman behind Mexico's oilworkers union. At about 9 a.m. last Tuesday, scores of federal police officers and troops surrounded Hernandez's heavily guarded house in Ciudad Madero, northeast of Mexico City. Whether authorities first attempted to arrest Hernandez without force is unclear; what is beyond dispute is that the lawmen used a bazooka to blast open the front door. When the battle was over, a federal agent lay dead and Hernandez and about a dozen other union officials and bodyguards were under arrest...
Immediately after the raid, the government announced it had found 200 automatic weapons and 30,000 rounds of ammunition in Hernandez's house. Hernandez and his colleagues were quickly flown to Mexico City, where they were arraigned on charges of illegally possessing weapons, resisting arrest and killing a police officer...
...leave U.S. cattlemen with a surplus of liver, sweetbreads and other specialty meats that are popular in Europe. But the American beef industry can probably make up for the lost European business elsewhere, since U.S. producers export more than $1 billion worth of beef every year to Asia, Mexico and Canada, or ten times the value of the meat shipped...
...Year dawned, Mexico was bracing itself for a painful reality. Jan. 1 marked the start of the Pact for Economic Stabilization and Growth, the latest package of wage and price controls intended to help keep Mexico's inflation rate below 20%. But it will probably pinch workers, whose real earnings have fallen steadily since 1982, and add further stress to an economy already staggering under more than $100 billion in foreign debt...
...workers demanding pay increases stormed the legislature shouting antigovernment slogans. Thousands more demonstrated in the streets of the city. At his inauguration Salinas, who won a clouded election by the narrowest margin in the 59-year history of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, again called for a reduction in Mexico's debt payments. "The interests of Mexicans," said he, "come before those of the creditors." Yet Salinas' ability to curb his country's debt burden is severely handicapped by the threatening political consequences of domestic austerity...