The history of Mexico - a resource page featuring many aspects of Mexican history.
A comprehensive presentation of Mexico's history including timelines, famous people, ancient history, modern history, the peoples of Mexico, ethnic origins, Indigenous Mexico (Mayan, Huichol, Tarahumar...
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Mexico - Mexican history time-line overview - resource page
Although all countries have visible remains of their history, Mexico seems to have reminders of its past in just about every town you visit. Due to Mexico's vast history this portion of Mexconnect cont...
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This month in Mexico - index page
This Month in Mexico:
January/Enero ...
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Mexico's Black heritage: the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca
Mexico this Month - July
Did You Know That...
During the month of July . . .
DOWN WITH DICTATORS! NO MORE RE-ELECTION!
MEXICAN NIGHTINGALE DIES - NATION MOURNS
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Ajijic, Mexico, in the 1960s and '70s: a picture essay
Marsha Sorensen lived in Ajijic in the mid and late1960s, and made two extended visits in 1972 and 1973. Revisting Ajijic in 2008 for the first time in thirty-five years, she was struck by the “aston...
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Did you know? The Green Revolution began in Mexico
Most people probably have a vague idea that the Green Revolution was something to do with improving crops in the developing world, but how many realize that it began in Mexico? In fact, the Green Revol...
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Did you know? Los Mochis and Topolobampo are both examples of "new towns".
The city of Los Mochis ("Mochees", as locals call it) in the northern state of Sinaloa, is one of Mexico's newest cities. It dates back only as far as 1872, when a U.S. engineer, Albert Kimsey Owen (18...
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Did you know? Cuautla, Mexico, has the world's oldest railway station building.
In the golden age of steam, railway lines were built all over Mexico. Rail quickly became THE way to travel. Depending on your status and wealth, you could travel third class, second class or first cla...
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Mexico's famous historical people - a chronological list of Mexican makers of history
This chronological listing of Mexico's famous and infamous historical figures puts you only a click away from reading more about their victories, lives and loves.
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Did you know? 19th century Mexico map maker first sailor through the Georgia Strait, Canada
José María Narváez (1768-1840) is one of Mexico's forgotten heroes.
Captain George Vancouver is usually given the credit for exploring the Georgia Strait and discovering the site of the city that n...
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Reluctant revolutionary: the rocky road of Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920)
Few people have ever less fitted the conventional image of a revolutionary than Venustiano Carranza. He was a country squire rather than an intellectual, he had been part of a ruling establishment and ...
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah
In Norman Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish, the term "chutzpah" is defined as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts'; presumption-plus-arrogance such as no other word ... can do justice to." As...
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Javier Mina (1789–1818)
While most of the leaders of Mexico's War of Independence were Mexican-born creoles, an exception was Francisco Javier Mina, whose name today appears on street signs and monuments throughout Mexico. Li...
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Bartolome de las Casas: father of liberation theology
Mention liberation theology and images that immediately come to mind are those of 1960s-style antiwar, anti-establishment priests like the Berrigan brothers or, more recently, Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcí...
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Cuauhtemoc: winner in defeat (1495–1525)
One of history's recurring ironies is the spectacle of figures who die in defeat or disgrace, but emerge in future generations as heroes while the people who defeated them are downgraded to villains. M...
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Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
Timothy Dwight, the fervently reactionary and comically pompous head of Yale University, was a strong Federalist supporter who predicted that the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency would l...
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The Quetzalcoatl "Trinity"
It is entirely correct to think of the Aztec legend Quetzalcoatl in three contexts -- as historical personality, as divinity and as literary subject. In the first incarnation he is a 10th century pries...
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The remarkable life of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695)
On the surface, no two people ever appeared more dissimilar than John Stuart Mill and Juana Inés de la Cruz. One was a great rationalist, an apostle of individual liberty, an enemy of dogma and a beli...
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Usurper: the dark shadow of Victoriano Huerta (1845–1916)
(Synopsis & Photo)
Victoriano Huerta was a man almost too bad to be true. Described by one historian as an "Elizabethan villain," he was a drunkard and repressive dictator who guaranteed himself a...
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The other (and greater) Moctezuma I
In a curious irony of history, an epigone frequently becomes better known than his/her illustrious namesake and predecessor. Mention Harold Ickes and most people will think you're talking about Clinton...
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Lucas Alamán and the Mexican right (1792–1853)
(This is an expanded version of an article that appeared
in the October 18-24, 1997 issue of the COLONY REPORTER)
In 19th century Mexico, most of the intellectuals were firmly on th...
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The Mexican Revolution - consolidation (1920–40) part 3
The next step was to get rid of Calles, who had become increasingly critical of Cárdenas's radicalism. To pre-empt a coup by the former strong man, Cárdenas sent a party of twenty soldiers and eight ...
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The Mexican Revolution - consolidation (1920–40) part 2
His land reform policy reflected the same make-haste-slowly mentality. In his four years of power Obregón distributed three million acres among 624 villages -- hardly a staggering amount but still sev...
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The Mexican Revolution - consolidation (1920–40) part 1
Of the major figures in the 1910-20 phase of the Mexican Revolution, only Alvaro Obregón and Pancho Villa remained. In a strange twist of fate, the counterrevolutionaries --Porfirio Díaz and Victoria...
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