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...goodwill been exchanged when another bitterly divisive issue surfaced that helped to explain why U.S. views of Mexico, as shown in the results of a Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman poll taken for TIME, tend to be so critical. One day after the presidential meeting, Washington officials reported that Victor Cortez Jr., 34, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been kidnaped in Guadalajara and brutally tortured by Mexican state officials before being released. An incensed Attorney General Edwin Meese responded to the news of the Cortez detention in a television interview by serving notice that the U.S. "is not going...
...very origins of Latin American history is the everpresent mythical tradition of the native inhabitants. In Mexico, the Aztecs are the people chosen by the gods to feed the sun and thus keep it moving. The arrival of the Spaniards in no way destroys this mythical tradition. Cortez' arrival, for example, is explained by the myth which tells of the redeeming God Quetzalcoatl who would come from the ocean to save the Mexicans from the evil god Huitzilopochtli. From its origins, history and myth become permanently linked...
Because the Charles River Watershed Association does not buy land, but "works with public and private groups to suggest ways for proper development to take place," said Cortez, the grant money will be used in a joint venture with the Trustees of the Reservation, a state organization that buys land or holds it outright...
...group is currently trying to open up the river for recreational purposes, said Cortez. In addition to reopening public beaches which used to be swimmable, the Watershed group also promotes boating and fishing on the river...
...Some of the best bass fishing in the state happens along the Charles," Cortez said...