Word: veracruz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regard to debt. The U.S. has had the luxury over the past 60 years, as a superpower, of not having to worry about its borders, either north or south. In the case of Mexico that is no longer true -- not because the Soviet Union is establishing a beachhead in Veracruz but because in order to maintain the type of relationship with Mexico that the U.S. has had over the past 60 years, the U.S. is going to have to do much more. The U.S. is going to have to pay a higher price in every sense of the word: more...
...record is spotty. A 25,000-gal. gasoline-storage tank exploded in the central Mexican city of Tula last January. No one was injured then, but one died and 33 were hurt in another explosion in June in the state of Tabasco. A week later, a pipeline leak in Veracruz intoxicated 16. Inhabitants of San Juan Ixhuatepec claim a fire broke out there last June, but neighborhood protests got nowhere. Pemex Spokesman Salvador del Rio denies this, saying that there were no recent fires and that maintenance was "done continually...