mexican history
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The story behind Corona’s rise to global fame
It’s a sweltering summer afternoon. The sun burns mercilessly, but you have salvation in hand: a clear glass bottle catching…
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What is Mesoamerica and why do people talk about it?
For those living in or interested in Mexico, the term “Mesoamerica” is unavoidable: Just look at how often the word…
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How the Manila Galleon made Acapulco the first global marketplace
For 300 years, starting in the early 1500s, the Spanish Empire was the largest the world had ever known. Marriages…
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Is the Hacienda de San Antonio Mexico’s best hotel?
As expats living in Dubai and far away from our families, opportunities to travel without our six-year-old daughter are rare…
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Why is it called the Zócalo?
Visit a Latin American city built during the colonial period and you’ll almost always find the same urban layout in…
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When Mexico ruled the waves
April 1843: a small flotilla of ships are cruising along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, which has seceded from…
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Belinda to star as Empress Carlota in new series from Sony
Mexican singer and actress Belinda Peregrín Schüll (known professionally as Belinda) will portray the ill-fated 19th-century empress Carlota in a…
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The Mokaya: Mexico’s ancient ‘Corn People’
Although the Mokaya are known as the “Corn People” — a sobriquet that is a literal translation of what Mokaya…
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Which world museums have Mexican artifacts?
In 2015, Germany returned two 3,000-year-old Olmec wooden statues to Mexico. They had been seized from a dubious Costa Rican…
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Aztec Rhapsodies: Mexico’s first conquista epic
Throughout history, a few gifted souls have managed to turn momentous events into epic poems. We have the Iliad, the…
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