Word: taxco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover story, Willwerth ranged from Tijuana and Monterrey to a hillside in the elegant Bosques district of Mexico City, which affords a view of outgoing President José López Portillo's unfinished family estate. Reporter Laura López headed south to Chiapas and Taxco. She also visited some of Mexico's most remote areas during the presidential campaign of Miguel de la Madrid and watched his helicopter fleet land, "no different in the eyes of the isolated villagers from seeing an Aztec god descend from the heavens." After a one-hour interview with...
...squeeze is equally apparent in other countries. Shop after shop in Taxco, Mexico, the silversmithing capital of the world, has closed. Artisans and craftsmen have been idled by the exploding cost of silver and the reluctance of tourists to pay the exorbitant prices. In Paris jewelry retailer Robert Edery confesses: "People just aren't buying. We have not done any real business in months...