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Mexico , officially the United Mexican States , is a country in the southern portion of North America . It covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), making it the world's 13th-largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th-most-populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country. Mexico is organized as a federal constitutional republic comprising 31 states and Mexico City , its capital and largest city . It shares land borders with the United States to the north, with Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; as well as maritime borders with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east.
Human presence in Pre-Columbian Mexico dates back to 8,000 BC , making it one of the world's six cradles of civilization . The Mesoamerican region hosted various intertwined civilizations, including the Olmec , Maya , Zapotec , Teotihuacan , and Purepecha . The Aztecs came to dominate the area prior to European contact . In 1521, the Spanish Empire , alongside indigenous allies, conquered the Aztec Empire , establishing the colony of New Spain in the former capital, Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City ). Over the next three centuries, Spanish expansion enforced Christianity , spread the Spanish language, and exploited rich silver deposits in Zacatecas and Guanajuato . The colonial era ended in the early nineteenth century with the Mexican War of Independence . (Full article... )
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Amarte Es un Placer (transl. Loving You Is a Pleasure ) is the thirteenth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel . It was released by WEA Latina on 13 September 1999. Produced by Miguel, it is a pop album with R&B and jazz influences. Miguel was more involved with the songwriting on this record than on earlier albums and was assisted by composers including Arturo Pérez, Armando Manzanero , and Juan Carlos Calderón . Despite the popularity of his contemporaries Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias who crossed over to the English-language market, Miguel preferred to sing and record in Spanish at the time.
Four singles were released to promote the album: "
Sol, Arena y Mar ", "
O Tú o Ninguna ", "
Dormir Contigo ", and the title track "
Amarte Es un Placer ". Miguel
embarked on a world tour which lasted from September 1999 into May 2000. He performed in Spain, South America, Mexico, and the United States. It became the highest-grossing tour by a Spanish-speaking recording artist. (
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Oaxaca ( wə-HAK -ə , also wah-HAH -kah , Spanish: [waˈxaka] ⓘ , from Classical Nahuatl : Huāxyacac [waːʃˈjakak] ⓘ ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Spanish : Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca ), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States . It is divided into 570 municipalities , of which 418 (almost three quarters) are governed by the system of usos y costumbres (customs and traditions) with recognized local forms of self-governance. Its capital city is Oaxaca de Juárez .
Oaxaca is in southern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of
Guerrero to the west,
Puebla to the northwest,
Veracruz to the north, and
Chiapas to the east. To the south, Oaxaca has a significant coastline on the Pacific Ocean. (
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José Gutiérrez Hernández (born March 1, 1972), better known by his ring name Último Guerrero (Spanish for Last Warrior ), is a Mexican luchador (or professional wrestler ), who works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He is not related to the lucha libre legend Gory Guerrero or any of his children; "Guerrero" in this case is the Spanish word for warrior and not the surname of the character. On September 19, 2014, Último Guerrero lost a Lucha de Apuestas match to Atlantis , after which he was forced to unmask and reveal his birth name.
He is a former holder of the
CMLL World Heavyweight Championship ,
NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship , the
CMLL World Tag Team Championship (where he and
Dragón Rojo Jr. are the longest reigning tag team champions) and
CMLL World Trios Championship on multiple occasions. Guerrero is a charter member of the
stable of wrestlers known as
Los Guerreros de Infierno / Los Guerreros de la Atlantida and has also made appearances for
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the United States. In TNA where he was part of
Team Mexico , which won the
2008 World X Cup . Guerrero is the only wrestler to win the
Torneo Gran Alternativa tournament three times and the
CMLL Universal Championship tournament twice. He is also part of the CMLL
booking committee. (
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Diego Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa] ; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.
Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted
murals in, among other places,
Mexico City ,
Chapingo , and
Cuernavaca , Mexico; and
San Francisco ,
Detroit , and
New York City , United States. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York; this was before he completed his 27-mural series known as
Detroit Industry Murals . (
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2 June 2024 – 2024 Mexican general election
Voters in Mexico elect a new president and legislature , eight governors , the mayor of Mexico City , and some 20,000 other positions in federal and local elections . (CNN)
28 May 2024 – International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
Pro-Palestinian protestors in Mexico set fire to the Israeli embassy in Mexico City . (The Jewish Chronicle ) (Proceso )
28 May 2024 – South Africa's genocide case against Israel
Mexico announces it will intervene in support of South Africa in South Africa's genocide case against Israel . (Middle East Eye )
24 May 2024 –
Dozens of people are killed across Mexico in a deadly heatwave, with temperatures as high as 45 °C (113 °F) recorded. (France 24) (DW)
22 May 2024 – San Pedro Garza García stage collapse
At least nine people are killed, including a child, and 121 are injured after a temporary stage collapses in high winds at a campaign event for the Citizens' Movement party in San Pedro Garza Garcia , Nuevo León , Mexico . Later, the Nuevo León government pledges 400,000 pesos ($23,900) in compensation to families of the deceased. (AP) (El País ) (Reuters)
8 May 2024 –
Rolling blackouts occur in several cities in Mexico amid an ongoing heatwave in the country. (The New York Times )
Pepita con Tasajo served at a restaurant in Chiapa de Corzo .
The
cuisine of Chiapas is a style of cooking centered on the
Mexican state of the same name . Like the
cuisine of rest of the country , it is based on corn with a mix of indigenous and European influences. It distinguishes itself by retaining most of its indigenous heritage, including the use of the
chipilín herb in tamales and soups, used nowhere else in
Mexico . However, while it does use some
chili peppers , including the very hot simojovel, it does not use it as much as other Mexican regional cuisines, preferring slightly sweet seasoning to its main dishes. Large regions of the state are suitable for grazing and the cuisine reflects this with meat, especially beef and the production of
cheese . The most important dish is the
tamal , with many varieties created through the state as well as dishes such as chanfaina, similar to
menudo and sopa de pan. Although it has been promoted by the state of Chiapas for tourism purposes as well as some chefs, it is not as well known as other Mexican cuisine, such as that of neighboring
Oaxaca . (
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The following are images from various Mexico-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Distribution of linguistic groups around 1500. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 2 Portrait and book by
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz , Baroque poet and writer. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 3 Three world leaders: (background, left to right) Mexican President
Carlos Salinas de Gortari , U.S. President
George H. W. Bush , and Canadian Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney , observe the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 4 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (from
History of Mexico )
Image 5 Spanish and Portuguese empires in 1790 (from
History of Mexico )
Image 6 Entry into Mexico City by the Mexican army (from
History of Mexico )
Image 7 Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico (from
History of Mexico )
Image 8 Buffalo Soldiers of the American
10th Cavalry Regiment taken prisoner during the
Battle of Carrizal , Mexico in 1916. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 9 Variegated maize ears (from
History of Mexico )
Image 10 Club América vs Cruz Azul at the
Estadio Azteca . (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 12 La leyenda de los volcanes (The legend of the volcanoes).
Saturnino Herrán . 1910-1912. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 13 Logo of
Nacional Financiera (NAFIN), the state development bank. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 14 A map of Mexico 1845 after Texas annexation by the U.S. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 16 Agustín de Iturbide the first
Emperor of Mexico (from
History of Mexico )
Image 18 Porfirio Díaz (from
History of Mexico )
Image 19 Chacmool , Maya, from the Platform of the Eagles, Chichen Itza, Mexico, ca. 800–90 CE (from
History of Mexico )
Image 20 A statue of a
Chichimeca Warrior in the city of
Querétaro (from
History of Mexico )
Image 21 Logo of the
Partido Nacional Revolucionario , with the colors of the Mexican flag (from
History of Mexico )
Image 22 Comanchería, territory controlled by the Comanches, prior to 1850 (from
History of Mexico )
Image 23 Alegoría de la Constitución de 1857 ,
Petronilo Monroy , 1869. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 25 President Obregón. Note that he lost his right arm in the
Battle of Celaya (1915), earning him the nickname of
Manco de Celaya ("the one-armed man of Celaya"). (from
History of Mexico )
Image 26 Lázaro Cárdenas mural (from
History of Mexico )
Image 28 Liberación (Liberation).
Jorge González Camarena . 1908. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 29 The Execution of Emperor Maximilian , 19 June 1867. Gen.
Tomás Mejía , left, Maximilian, center, Gen.
Miguel Miramón , right. Painting by
Édouard Manet 1868. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 30 Goddess, mural painting from the Tetitla apartment complex at Teotihuacan, Mexico, 650–750 CE (from
History of Mexico )
Image 31 Cerro del Cubilete ("Dice Cup Hill"). At the top of the hill is the
Cristo Rey (
Christ the
King ) statue. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 32 President Vicente Fox with Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh (from
History of Mexico )
Image 33 Panel 3 from Cancuen, Guatemala, representing king T'ah 'ak' Cha'an (from
History of Mexico )
Image 34 Mexican Army troops in the
Zócalo in the 1968
Tlatelolco massacre . (from
History of Mexico )
Image 35 Modern group monument of
Cortés ,
Doña Marina , and their
mestizo son Martín (from
History of Mexico )
Image 36 Sawdust carpet made during "The night no one sleeps" in Huamantla, Tlaxcala (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 37 Murals of Bonampak (between 580 and 800 AD) (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 38 Colossal atlantids, pyramid B, Toltec, Tula, Mexico, ca. 900–1180 AD (from
History of Mexico )
Image 39 Pear ,
Quince and
Psidium cajeta . In 2010 declared the
Bicentennial Dessert of Mexico. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 43 General
Pancho Villa at the entrance of Ojinaga (from
History of Mexico )
Image 44 Gilberto Bosques Saldívar took the initiative to rescue tens of thousands of Jews and
Spanish Republican exiles from being deported to
Nazi Germany or Spain. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 45 The first
Braceros arrive in
Los Angeles by train in 1942. Photograph by
Dorothea Lange . (from
History of Mexico )
Image 46 El Chapo in US custody after his extradition from Mexico. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 47 The Castillo, Chichen Itza, Mexico, ca. 800–900 CE (from
History of Mexico )
Image 48 Surrender of Santa Anna by
William Henry Huddle shows the Mexican president and general surrendering to a wounded
Sam Houston in 1836. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 50 A unit of Cristeros preparing for battle. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 55 U.S. President
Barack Obama and Mexican President-Elect
Enrique Peña Nieto during their meet at the
White House following Peña Nieto's
election victory. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 57 Dining table , painted between 1857 y 1859, oleo sobre tela (oil on canvas) by
Agustín Arrieta (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 58 "The Torture of
Cuauhtémoc ", a 19th-century painting by
Leandro Izaguirre (from
History of Mexico )
Image 59 Toltec carving representing the Aztec Eagle, found in
Veracruz , 10th–13th century.
Metropolitan Museum of Art . (from
History of Mexico )
Image 60 Battle of Centla, the first time a horse was used in battle in a war in the Americas. Mural in the Palacio Municipal of Paraíso,
Tabasco (from
History of Mexico )
Image 61 Making cigarettes in the
El Buen Tono factory, Mexico City (from
History of Mexico )
Image 63 Teotihuacan view of the Avenue of the Dead and the
Pyramid of the Sun , from the
Pyramid of the Moon (from
History of Mexico )
Image 64 La huida a Egipto (The Flight into Egypt).
Miguel Cabrera , around 1700. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 65 Shield Jaguar and
Lady Xoc , Maya, lintel 24 of temple 23, Yaxchilan, Mexico, ca. 725 ce. (from
History of Mexico )
Image 66 Victoriano Huerta , ruler of Mexico from 1913 to 1914 (from
History of Mexico )
Image 67 Mexico City street market (from
History of Mexico )
Image 68 Exconvento (Ex-convent), by
José María Velasco . 1860. (from
Culture of Mexico )
Image 69 Singer and actor Pedro Infante, one of the leading figures of the
Golden Age of Mexican Cinema . (from
Culture of Mexico )
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