Word: negra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan demonstrated several Mexican dances at the event, from the artful El Son de la Negra to El Jarabe Tapastio...
Fifteen hundred miles south, in the Sierra Negra, lies a poorer and more conservative Mexico. Here along the dry river beds suspicion of Uncle Sam remains pronounced. ``How did Mexico fall so quickly?'' asks Serafin Perez Nava, mayor of San JoseTetla (pop. 800). ``Under Salinas we thought we had prestige, but it washed away like a sand castle. Now they are mortgaging our country. What happens later if we can't pay our debts? Will the U.S. then ask for part of our territory?'' Carlos Garcia Moreno teaches 17 children in a one-room schoolhouse. His $70-a-week salary...