Mexican history: a brief summary
Native Mexican Americans first settled along what used to be the shores of shallow lake Texcoco, present day Mexico City, in 1500 BC. By the early 1300 AD, the Aztecs established roots on an Island in ...
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The Preclassic or Formative Period ( 1500 BC - 300 AD )
The Formative Period begins with the first appearance of pottery and ends with the rise of the Teotihuacan and Mayan civilizations. It was an epoch marked by the emergence of effective agriculture, the...
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La Malinche - harlot or heroine?
December 1997 "El Ojo del Lago" Guadalajara-Lakeside Volume 14, Number 4 With permission.
"La Malinche." Slave, interpreter, secretary, mistress, mother of the first "Mexican." her very name...
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The Tarasco culture and empire
Among the fertile volcanoes of Michoacan Lumholtz came across the Purepecha people, who were called Tarascan by the Spanish. Enemies of the Aztecs, the Tarascans flourished from 1100 A.D. to 1530 A.D. ...
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Francisco I. Madero 1873-1913
Born in Parras, Coahuila on October 30, 1873. Son of a wealthy landowner. Family was devoted to ranching, farming and commerce. Studied commerce and economics in France and agriculture in the U.S. Saw ...
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Himno nacional Mexicano - the Mexico national anthem
Letra Oficial del
Himno Nacional Mexicano
CORO Mexicanos, al grito de guerra
El acero aprestad y el bridon;
...
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The history of Mexico - resource page
The Current History of Mexico:
The Time-Line View: from 3500 B.C. to the present day. This view is fully integrated allowing t...
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Victoriano Huerta 1854-1916
SYNOPSIS
Born March 23, 1854 in Colotlan, Jalisco. Educated in a rural school and attended Colegio Militar de Chapultepec. Huerta's career advanced during the Díaz presidency. Huerta was allowed t...
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'El Grito' - September 15 or 16?
On the night of September 15, 1910, the special envoys stood on the illuminated balconies of the National Palace and watched the fiesta of all fiestas on the Mexcian civil calendar: the grito de...
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Tlatelolco massacre - the secret archives
Tlatelolco Massacre - The Secret Archives:
Courtesy of the U.S. National Security Archive
Document 1
3/28/68
CIA Special National Intelligenc...
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El 2 de octubre no se olvida: lucha y masacre en Mexico, 1968: parte 1 la rebelion de los jovenes
Obrero Revolucionario #975, 27 de septiembre, 1998
Hace 30 años una pujante lucha popular sacudió a México hasta los cimientos y la juventud rebelde presentó batalla.
Al atardecer del 2 de octubr...
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Tlatelolco then and now - resource page
TLATELOLCO
THEN AND NOW
Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City, D. F. (now Plaza of the Three Cultures) holds a special place in the history of Mexico, and in the hearts and minds of her people....
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Lucha y Masacre en Mexico, 1968: Parte 2 Sangre en Tlatelolco
Obrero Revolucionario #976, 4 de octubre, 1998
Parte 1
Cuando las mujeres de Tlatelolco hirvieron agua...
pero no para cocinar
A medida que las batallas e...
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Tlatelolco massacre - the secret archives
TLATELOLCO MASSACRE:
DECLASSIFIED U.S. DOCUMENTS ON MEXICO
AND THE EVENTS OF 1968
Mexico's tragedy unfolded on the night of October 2, 1968, when a student demonstration ended in a storm...
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Upsurge and massacre in Mexico, 1968 part 3: echoes in the 90s
Revolutionary Worker #977, October 11, 1998
This is the final part of a three-part series. Part 1 described the rising movement of the students and others in the days before the 1968 Olympic ...
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Upsurge and massacre in Mexico 1968: part 2 blood at Tlatelolco
Revolutionary Worker #976, October 4, 1998
When the Tlatelolco Women Boiled Water--
But Not for Dinner
(Part 1: The Youth Revolt)
As battles between youth and security forces became more and...
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Tlatelolco, Mexico, August 13, 1521
This page is mirrored with permission from Peter Rashkin,
of
SPANISH DAGGER PUBLICATIONS
Tlatelolco
Plaza de las Tres Culturas
...
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October 2 is not forgotten - upsurge and massacre In Mexico, 1968 part 1: the youth revolt
Revolutionary Worker #975, September 27, 1998
Thirty years ago, Mexico was shaken to its foundations by a fierce upsurge of the people--with rebel youth at the forefront.
On the evening of October 2,...
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Lucha y masacre en Mexico, 1968: parte 3 ecos en los anos 90
Obrero Revolucionario #977, aa de octubre, 1998
Este es el último de tres artículos sobre el 2 de octubre de 1968 en México. La primera parte describió el desarrollo del movimiento estudi...
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Pancho Villa 1878-1923
Mexconnect writers explore the many faces of Francisco "Pancho" Villa, a key figure in the Mexican Revolution.
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Pascual Orozco, Jr. 1882-1915
SYNOPSIS
Born January 28, 1882 near Guerrero, Chihuahua. Attended a rural school, then worked in his father's store. At the age of 20, was a muleteer guarding ore shipments from the mines to the sm...
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Venustiano Carranza 1859-1920
SYNOPSIS
Born in 1859 as one of fifteen children of a wealthy landowner. Well educated. Entered politics as a municipal president. Later served as a state legislator, federal deputy and state gover...
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Defending the sea and the land
This is page 4 of seven on MexConnect which come originally from the website of CEDEX (Center for Historic Studies of Public Works and Town Planning) in Madrid, Spain. (Links to the other six pages ar...
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The "virreinato" of New Spain
This is page 5 of seven on MexConnect which come originally from the website of CEDEX (Center for Historic Studies of Public Works and Town Planning) in Madrid, Spain. (Links to the other six pages ar...
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The "cuadricula"
This is page 6 of seven on MexConnect which come originally from the website of CEDEX (Center for Historic Studies of Public Works and Town Planning) in Madrid, Spain. (Links to the other six pages ar...
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