Word: tapatio
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Over drinks at El Tapatio, a half-empty restaurant near the highway, Margarito, his wife and uncle talked about the financial crisis - how Wall Street had binged on mortgages while Washington looked the other way. The parallels to immigration were pointed: during the boom years, the U.S. binged on cheap labor while politicians neither legalized workers nor prevented them from sneaking across the border. It was a grossly laissez-faire policy that has left everyone - Americans and immigrants alike - with a postboom hangover...
...There are stacks of records by the omnipresent Mexican street bands, the mariachis. Most of it sounds best on the streets, is crudely executed, poorly recorded. Recommendable is the great sectional song, Guadalajara, by Mariachi Tapatio (Victor...
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