Word: sinaloa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug traffickers are easily identifiable in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, mainly because they are among the people who can afford expensive American cars with four-wheel drive to make it through the Sierra Madre Occidental for their treasure. The bosses dominate the local culture to such an extent that after a recent mountain shootout in which one soldier and twelve civilians were killed, local chiefs called in friendly newsmen to report the incident as a case of government brutality inflicted upon defenseless civilians. For printing the story, the reporters received about $450 apiece...
...bags full of cash, hundreds of Mexicans streamed across the Rio Grande last week. Their aim: to deposit in U.S. banks their threatened life savings. In Mexico City, foreign-currency trading halted as snaking lines of customers exhausted banks' supplies of dollars. Across the breadbasket of Sonora and Sinaloa states, armies of militant peasants poised to "invade" some of the country's richest farm lands. Near by, dispossessed landowners angrily draped their tractors in black crape. For a time, land war in the campo (countryside) seemed only a gunshot away...
...shut down shops and factories in cities across the country in a 24-hour sympathy strike. Full-page newspaper ads accused Echeverria of "attacking the productive men of Mexico." Privately, business spokesmen charged the President with seeking to impose a "socialist or Communist system." As aroused campesinos in neighboring Sinaloa prepared to occupy vast new acreage last week, Echeverria balked. To avoid a bloody clash between the peasants and landowners, he announced a compromise: only a token 32,000 acres of land would be distributed to farm hands; any further expropriation would wait until the new President took office...