Word: sinaloa
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...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...
...stretches 300 miles of riverless desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation system...
Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico...
...weeks later, three of the Castro children, one of the Zavala children and then Panfilo Castro himself died in convulsions. The village of Platanito, in the state of Sinaloa, was thunderstruck...