Word: orizaba
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Hardest hit were the villages and small towns near Mexico's highest peak, the 18,700-ft. Orizaba volcano. In Veladero, a village of 2,000 people, only 20 of its 280 houses were left standing. In Orizaba, an industrial town near Veracruz, a three-story building was split in two, killing 19 people. Village after village offered the same vision of destruction and tragedy: young and old sifting through piles of adobe rubble, looking for something to salvage; men balancing wooden coffins on their heads, on the way to pick up their dead...
...like-minded coyotes-including Banker Anibal de Iturbide and Insurance King Manuel Senderos-Trouyet cut them in on his deals, in turn was let in on theirs. Last year he persuaded Textile Tycoon Je-ronimo Arango Sr. to join him in buying a 55% stake in the big old Orizaba textile company-fully appreciating that Arango's three sons run Mexico's largest discount retailing chain (TIME, Feb. 8) and would provide a fine outlet for Orizaba's garments...
...soldiers on Orizaba kept Mexican photographers from taking pictures of the corpses. All through the night the Mexican press was kept sitting, cold, hungry and idle. The gringos gave them no help, lent them not a blanket, gave them not a sandwich nor a cup of coffee...
...affair on Orizaba, however, had only touched off a growing Mexican resentment. The slaughter of precious but aftosa-ridden cattle had been hard to take. And Mexican tempers had long been riled by the behavior of some U.S. members of the anti-aftosa commission. Some of them (one U.S. official described them as having a "Texas mentality") had scoffed at their well-educated but poorly paid Mexican colleagues. Few of the Americans bothered to learn Spanish, few tried to understand Mexican temperament...
...this time the Mexican papers were easing up on the Orizaba affair but, still steamed up, had launched a hot-headed crusade against American influence in the Mexico City Y.M.C.A...