Word: paseo
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...boom times for those perched on the upper rungs of the economic ladder. Mexico's claim to First World status begins at its dramatic glass stock-market building towering over the capital's main artery, Paseo de la Reforma. Young brokers in horn-rimmed glasses and imported ties traded the market into a 48% gain last year, even as the national economy slid into recession. In the three months after NAFTA passed in the U.S. Congress last year, more than $7 billion in new money flowed into Mexico, most of it from...
...month-long march to celebrate "500 years of survival." In the city, thousands of additional demonstrators danced and prayed on the Zocalo, the central square; still others hung a sign reading FIVE CENTURIES OF MASSACRE around the neck of a statue of Columbus on the elegant main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma. Mass demonstrations also occurred in Bolivia and Chile. In Buenos Aires some native people staged a three-day hunger strike that ended on Columbus Day in front of the Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace. And in Managua, Nicaragua, a poster branded Columbus A BIG THIEF, MURDERER, RACIST...
...signs of Spain's new international standing are abundant. Along the stately, tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, a boulevard that runs through Madrid's main business district, a rush by foreign banks and other multinational companies to rent or buy scarce office space has helped raise real estate prices 20% over the past year. U.S., European and Japanese businessmen throng Spanish golf courses and savor Madrid's night life...
...Mexico City when the earth began to heave. Up to half a million residents crowded the Metro, bound for work or for classes. A few schools were already open, and the inevitable morning traffic jam was slowing movement on the streets, even on the tree-lined, eight-lane Paseo de la Reforma, the grand boulevard that extends through the center of the city...
Cruisers are predominantly Hispanic, and they follow, on wheels, the tradition of the paseo. In a motorized version of that mating dance, boys and girls now drive who would once have walked in opposing circles around a village square eyeing each other, flirting and showing off. All innocent fun, except that gangs have followed the cruisers. Nearly 350 gangs plague Los Angeles. They have 20,000 to 30,000 members between the ages of twelve and 22. Sixty percent of the violent street crime in Los Angeles County is youth crime. The incidence is rising fast near Hollywood Boulevard, where...