Word: sonora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cardenas campaign was an eight-month odyssey in search of people he calls the "forgotten ones." He stayed in hotels so unpleasant that journalists covering his campaign refused to enter them. Says Campaign Aide Carlos Torres: "We talked to the Yaqui Indians in Sonora, the Triques in Oaxaca, the Mazahuas in Mexico State. We went to see them. We didn't have them brought...
...farmers, the patronage of local drug dons often means the difference between eating and going hungry. "What choice do we have?" asks a peasant in the state of Guerrero who earns $10 a day from his poppy field, $8 more than the agricultural farmers. "We have to live." In Sonora the tale is told of an up-and-coming trafficker, known as El Cejaguera (Blond Eyebrows), who visited several drought-stricken farms, handed the proprietors cash- stuffed envelopes, then disappeared without a word...
...narcotics traffickers were arrested in three Mexican states, it became increasingly clear that Mexico had become yet another way station for Medellin cartel business. Six of the detainees were Colombians believed to be midlevel operatives for the cartel. When Mexican federal police inspected a warehouse the Colombians used in Sonora, they found 100 AK-47 assault rifles, 65,000 rounds of ammunition, 92 bayonets and six infrared night scopes. Said a high- level Mexican official: "If Mexico allows itself to get caught up in the arms-for-drugs cycle that Colombia is in, I think the entire tissue of society...
Some of the loudest challenges are coming from Mexico's eight opposition parties. The largest by far is the National Action Party, a conservative organization with strength in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua and a growing constituency among the middle class. Traditionally, the P.A.N. has had two weaknesses: a failure to build grass-roots support and a tendency to recede into the shadows except at election time. The P.A.N.'s newly elected leader, Luis Alvarez, 67, is determined, however, to make his party a truly national...
Other miners continue to see a bonanza in more traditional methods. About eleven miles southeast of the Carson Hill site, Canadian-backed Sonora Mining has invested $85 million to build the largest conventional gold-processing mill in North America, due to open early next year. Sonora hopes to excavate 2 million oz. of gold from the hills around Jamestown (pop. 950), a sleepy settlement born during the 1849 gold rush...