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Emperor of Mexico Cuauhtemoc
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Toluca
Toluca , city (1990 pop. 327,865), capital of Mexico state, central Mexico. Located on the central plateau, Toluca (alt. c.8,760 ft/2,670 m) has a year-round cool climate. It was established as a settlement in 1530 by Hernán Cortés , who had received the Valle de Toluca as a grant... Read more |
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Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio: 1971—: Singer, actress Already one of the brightest stars in the pantheon of Latin American popular music, Paulina Rubio seems poised to become the next big Latin crossover success, following in the footsteps of Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Ricky Martin. The daughter of one... Read more |
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Tlaxcala (state)
Tlaxcala , state (1990 pop. 761,277), 1,555 sq mi (4,027 sq km), E central Mexico. Tlaxcala is the capital. It is the smallest and one of the most densely populated Mexican states. The western part lies within Mexico's central plateau; the remainder, however, is extremely mountainous, with a... Read more |
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Mexican Cession
MEXICAN CESSION (1848) The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was the peace treaty between the United States and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican War (1846–1848). The conflict lasted until the treaty was signed on February 2, 1848, in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city in south central Mexico near... Read more |
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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero 1932-, Colombian figurative painter and sculptor, b. Medellín, one of the most celebrated contemporary Latin American artists. He attended his native city's university (grad. 1950) and art academies in San Ferdinando, Spain (1952-53), and Florence, Italy (1953-55). Botero... Read more |
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Colorado River (North America)
Colorado River Basin Located in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, the Colorado River is a 2,330-kilometer (1,450-mile) river with its headwatersin the Rocky Mountain National Park in north-central Colorado. The river is the primary source of water for a... Read more |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848, peace treaty between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican War . Negotiations were carried on for the United States by Nicholas P. Trist . The treaty was signed on Feb. 2, 1848, in the village of Guadalupe Hidalgo, just outside Mexico City. It... Read more |
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Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is a unique, semi-enclosed sea located between the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas, at the southeast shores of the United States. The Gulf of Mexico borders five of the 50 United States (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas), and also Cuba and the... Read more |
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Arturo Ripstein
RIPSTEIN, Arturo Nationality:Mexican. Born:Mexico City, 1943. Family:Son of Alfredo Ripstein, one of Mexico's most accomplished producers, credited with more than 180 films. Career:Began directorial career at the age of twenty-one, with the debut of... Read more |
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Twitter to be banned in Mexico?(The Big Blog)
...set up by police in Mexico City. One Twitter account...problem. The bill, still a draft, spurred a...of the high number of kidnappings in Mexico City. Networking sites...trafficking still plagues Mexico. ... |
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Mexico court opens extradition pipeline.
...suspects. Mexico will still refuse to return...been turned down by Mexico because of a 2001...of anyone unless Mexico was guaranteed the...who had fled to Mexico. Among those are...country suffers from a plague of ... |
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Beheadings, hangings plague Tijuana amid festival
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A rash...Police said they were still conducting forensic...has continued to plague other cities in Mexico's northern states...crimes, such as kidnapping and distortion...Kathy Corcoran in Mexico City ... |
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Guerrillas Put Mexico's Hope for Stability Under Siege; Escalation of Rebel...
...Hey, you're still very vulnerable...watch out,' " said Mexico City economic analyst...assassinations and kidnappings, a rebel uprising...effects rippled through Mexico City today: The...said a worker at a Mexico City money ... |
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Shallow graves, deepening alarm; Mexico's drug war.
Still no end to the horrors OFFICIALLY, nearly 35,000 people have been killed since Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, began...new upstarts. Some analysts say the plague of kidnapping (up fourfold compared with 2005) and... |
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Fox Adopts More Formal Style; Mexican's Change in Tone Accompanies New Focus...
...above 80 percent still hover around 60...is collapsing, Mexico's seems resilient...And a rash of kidnappings and robberies has...Castellanos. "Mexico is essentially a...inefficiency that plagues Mexico's other police... |
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Faith in husband's innocence keeps woman going.
...Canto CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico _ Miriam Garcia paces...parents, but she's still recovering from a Caesarean...levanton, one of the kidnappings that plague this border city as the...spreads its ugly claws. Still, she doesn't dismiss... |
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U.S., MEXICAN OFFICIALS MEET IN LAREDO TO ADDRESS BORDER VIOLENCE
...commitment to fight this plague of violence. The...the Government of Mexico to Ambassador Garza...and is hopeful that Mexico will also make renewed...all the resources Mexico has available, with...work on specific kidnapping cases involving ... |
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AP Top News at 8:44 a.m. EDT
...Humans [image omitted] MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Borrowing...industry surrounding Mexico's criminal concerns. Kidnappings, robberies and fraud...Crime continues to plague the country following...death of the Iraqi are still under investigation... |
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Returning to beloved Latin America, Pope to bask in glow of followers
...the challenges that plague his papacy in other...Youth Day there. Still, attendance was...in Guatemala and Mexico, among the 27 countries...Already, faithful in Mexico are crawling on bloody...in pilgrimages to Mexico City, where the...have ... |
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