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...walked, arms extended, off the aircraft and quickly fell to his knees to kiss the Mexican soil. The first people to greet him were Mexico's President José López Portillo and his wife. Under the nation's anticlerical protocol, the Pope was an "unofficial" guest, and the President gave him a handshake instead of a warm Latin embrace. No matter. It seemed as if at least half of the 13 million people who live in greater Mexico City had turned out to welcome him with an overwhelming display of warmth. Along his motor route, there...
...site for a papal visit, Mexico abounds with historical paradox. So ingrained is anticlericalism in this overwhelmingly Catholic land that President Lopez Portillo was under considerable pressure not to see the Pope at all, much less greet him upon his arrival. Under Mexican law, John Paul could have been fined for wearing clerical garb in public. Of course, that law is now winked at, as are constitutional provisions that prohibit the church from operating schools and priests from saying anything about political matters...
LATIN AMERICA. On Valentine's Day, Carter will hold talks in Mexico City with President José López Portillo. His aim: to begin work on an agreement for the U.S. to purchase Mexico's oil and natural gas, and to ease the strains caused by the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, months of patient U.S. diplomacy were thrown into question when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle last week rejected a U .S. proposal for internationally supervised elections aimed at ending civil strife over his rule...
Clearly the time has come to forget the Alamo, to struggle down memories of the glorious oil nationalization and to try some creative horse trading. President Carter will journey to Mexico in mid-February to trade abrazos and to parley in his struggling Spanish with President Lopez Portillo. Now that Congress has passed the energy bill and U.S. natural gas prices will rise in January, Carter can comfortably sweeten the price for Pemex gas. In order to encourage Mexico's struggling agriculture and industry, and to relieve its population pressures, he would do well to promise higher economic aid, lower...
That grisly prospect unleashed a torrent of anti-American rhetoric in Mexico. Said Congressman Salvador Reyes Nevares: "Our government cannot remain impassive in the face of this inhuman measure, which tramples on our dignity." President José López Portillo called the fence-building "a discourteous, inconsiderate act." Editorial Writer Yolanda Sierra in Mexico City's daily Ovaciones dubbed the fence "a tortilla curtain...