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...Colombia staggered under the impact of Nevado del Ruiz's devastating eruption last week, Mexico was still recovering from its own recent natural calamity. The scars of that disaster were barely evident along Mexico City's elegant Paseo de la Reforma as crowds thronged its tiled, tree-lined sidewalks. Piles of rubble from the country's Sept. 19 earthquake, which killed some 20,000 people and shattered the lives of tens of thousands more, had been bulldozed from the bustling avenue that borders the Zona Rosa, the luxury shopping and sightseeing district. Something akin to normalcy seemed to have returned...
MEXICO "[Our] tradition tends to admire Don Juan presidents [and] such guerrillas of love as Pancho Villa and Che Guevara." --Carlos Fuentes, Reforma...
...boom times for those perched on the upper rungs of the economic ladder. Mexico's claim to First World status begins at its dramatic glass stock-market building towering over the capital's main artery, Paseo de la Reforma. Young brokers in horn-rimmed glasses and imported ties traded the market into a 48% gain last year, even as the national economy slid into recession. In the three months after NAFTA passed in the U.S. Congress last year, more than $7 billion in new money flowed into Mexico, most of it from...
...home state calling his death "Sonora's version of the John F. Kennedy assassination." Mourners gathered in the giant square in front of party headquarters in Mexico City, carrying banners with Colosio's name. "Justice! Justice!" they cried. Now the party may reap a sympathy vote. "Yesterday," declared Reforma columnist Raymundo Riva Palacio the day after the assassination, "the P.R.I. won the election...
...march to celebrate "500 years of survival." In the city, thousands of additional demonstrators danced and prayed on the Zocalo, the central square; still others hung a sign reading FIVE CENTURIES OF MASSACRE around the neck of a statue of Columbus on the elegant main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma. Mass demonstrations also occurred in Bolivia and Chile. In Buenos Aires some native people staged a three-day hunger strike that ended on Columbus Day in front of the Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace. And in Managua, Nicaragua, a poster branded Columbus A BIG THIEF, MURDERER, RACIST, TORTURER, OPPRESSOR...