Word: orizaba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplane crash on the cloud-draped slopes of windy Orizaba, eight Mexicans and eight U.S. citizens had died together. They had also died in the same cause. All were workers of the U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (foot & mouth disease...
...very night of the crash, on the alpine slopes of Orizaba (18,000 ft.), things began going wrong. Mexicans were first to reach the wreckage. They were presently joined by a U.S. rescue party including seven soldiers-some armed...
...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...