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Squirming in his handcuffs, the white-bearded Villa Garcia looks more like a kindly grandfather than a drug trafficker. He says he has been in the U.S. poquito--only a short time. A stranger came to his village in the Mexican state of Michoacan and brought him across the border, along with four others. One of them was with him on the Tahoe farm but managed to escape. "I did not know what kind of work it would be," he says in Spanish, adding that he was paid $200 a month. Villa Garcia was arraigned on narcotics-cultivation charges, pleaded...
What is all the fuss about democracy and Mexico City's newly elected mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas [WORLD, July 21]? Although he is a member of the center-left Democratic Revolution Party (P.R.D.), people should look at his record while he was governor of the state of Michoacan and belonged to the long-ruling authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The younger generation in Mexico had better examine this old "dinosaur" carefully. He is a castoff, passed over and recycled. JAY COBB Eaton, Ohio...
...springboard to an independent presidential bid. Many ruling party faithful blame Salinas' concessions in Chiapas for a sharp increase in strikes and demonstrations across the nation. Indians in Oaxaca and Guerrero states are demanding the same concessions as their brothers in Chiapas. Last week 1,000 students marching in Michoacan state to protest a rise in public bus fares burned several vehicles and threatened to set government offices on fire unless officials agreed to talk...
...Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has governed the country for 60 years, will permit a fair count in the state, where it lost in 1988. The party's reputation is not helped by the fact that two P.R.I. victories last year in the central states of Guerrero and Michoacan provoked opposition charges of ballot rigging and resulted in violent clashes between police and demonstrators...
Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...