Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priorities of the Salinas administration. First, to participate in the enormous transformation that is going on in the world. There's a realignment of financial, commercial, economic and political relationships. Second, to recognize, then promote advances in our democratic life. Third, a war on poverty in Mexico. The fourth is a new development strategy that calls for recovering growth...
...bone-dry Brownsville, Texas, the rain came fast and furious, sending pedestrians scurrying for protection. Dozens took shelter at La Tienda Amigo, a retail mart near the bridge to Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande. Downpour turned to deluge, dumping two inches of rain in 30 minutes -- apparently enough to collapse the structure housing the store into a murderous heap of concrete and metal. Dozens of people were crushed or trapped in the rubble. One wall tumbled outward, killing a woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed...
Last Wednesday, which was election day in Mexico, the PRI's presidential candidate, Carlos Salinas de Gotari, a Harvard educated economist and former Minister of Public Finance, announced his victory before a majority of the votes had been turned...
...opposition party candidates were quick to criticize the PRI for rigging even such unfavorable electoral returns. Reports of ballot stuffing and payment for PRI votes led Cardenas to conduct an independent electoral survey which indicated the leftist nominee had actually led Mexico City, which contains one-fourth of the Mexican population, and three other states. But the PRI claims that the independent count is just a publicity move and has still not made a statement as to whether or not these figures are true...
RIOTING and violence began to break out in Mexico when the official results were delayed, and the party which has maintained generally peaceful social relations in the country was forced to become flexible, and so it conceeded some senatorial seats. The PRI, however, will have to do more than assuage the Left with a minority of seats in the Congress it controls...