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Reduced Prices. Finally, and perhaps most urgently, López Portillo is eager to promote tourism...
...with those countries in the U.N. that voted to equate Zionism with racism. The vote was no sooner recorded than U.S. Jews rushed out to their travel agents to cancel their reservations for Mexican vacations. The tourist business has yet to recover from that devastating period. López Portillo cannot erase his country's vote in the U.N., but he is doing his utmost to convince foreigners of all persuasions that Mexico is once again, as a new slogan declares, "the amigo country...
Responsible Parenthood. More difficult to deal with is Mexico's population explosion; the annual increase is 3.2%. Half of the nation's people are under 20 years of age, and at least 40% of the older youths in this group can find no work. López Portillo will have to find a way to help the disaffected; few people have forgotten the 1968 student riots, including the notorious noche triste (the night of sorrow), when an estimated 200 people died. Three years ago, the government established a birth control program that emphasized "responsible parenthood"; the birth rate...
...greatest challenge for López Portillo is to find a solution for the gnawing problem that is really at the basis of all the nation's troubles. Whatever the reasons-proximity to the U.S., corruption at high levels, resentment, frustration-Mexicans have never been able to realize a true national identity. Some sociologists theorize that Mexicans suffer a national inferiority complex. Cynics among them describe Mexico as a nation of losers, who endure the worst of outrages by telling sad little jokes about their leaders...
...campaign, López Portillo coined the catch phrase la solution somos todos (the solution is all of us). He might have been reflecting on a passage from his own book, Quetzalcoatl...