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While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the 20th century's most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saúl Alanis Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States was in the 20th century and continues to be in the 21st.

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home - only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an 18-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way.

A little more than 100 years ago a Mexican peasant named Emiliano Zapata gathered a rural army from the plantations and villages of southern Mexico, seized the lands of the haciendas, and began to distribute them among the peasants of Anenecuilco, his hometown, in the state of Morelos. Outraged and impatient with the ceaseless destitution of the indigenous peoples at the hands of the landowners, he had decided to take justice in his hands.

As part of the illustrious history of our struggle for independence, one of the most memorable and significant battles, due to its political and ideological impact, was between Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and José María Morelos y Pavón on the 20th of October, 1810, in what was once called Villa de Charo, two leagues east of the ancient city of Valladolid de Michoacán.

Audiolibro de Vive el Tiempo. El Dr. Herrejón Peredo, historiador y reconocido como una de las voces más autorizadas para hablar de Morelos e Hidalgo, nos presenta a dos de los protagonistas de la Independencia de México en la trascendencia del valor histórico y social de sus acciones, pero también en lo apasionante de sus vida. Esas vida que fueron extraordinaria, ricas, sorprendentes y asombrosas.

Audiolibro de Vive el Tiempo. Los Sentimientos de la Nación son sin duda la más relevante formulación sintética de la visión de la insurgencia en su momento cumbre. Manifiestan el pensamiento político de Morelos en su fase culminante, compartido entonces por la mayoría de la dirigencia insurgente. Al mismo tiempo esos principios señalan ya una pre-constitución del nuevo Estado Nación que se gestaba.

Audiolibro de Vive el Tiempo. Se conmemora una gesta trascendente en la historia del pueblo mexicano y la forma como ese movimiento cambió la vida del país e impactó la vida social, política y económica en el Estado de Michoacán. Es un texto que incluye diversos nombres que tienen resonancia en la historia de México, y que le dan una particularidad a la propia historia de Michoacán.

Audiolibro de Vive el Tiempo. Sin lugar a dudas la llamada Conspiración de Valladolid de 1809 representa para la memoria colectiva del pueblo de México uno de esos hitos fundamentales de la historia de este país, porque fue ahí en donde se expresó por primera vez el idea de independencia de la nación.

The legend of Francisco Villa is full of heroism, tragedy, and romance. It is the story of a poor farmer boy who became a bandit out of necessity, after avenging an injustice on his family; a military genius who flew from an oppressive government to lead the largest revolutionary army in his country's history, and defeated dictatorship to become Mexico's liberator, only to fall again in disgrace when his troops abandoned him or were massacred by the enemy.

Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the US/Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles, from Boca Chica to Tijuana. Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history (indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American, colonist, and US), wars, and legislation unfold. And through observation, conversation, and meditation, Border Odyssey scopes the stories of the people and towns on both sides.

Un audiolibro que pretende resumir las vidas de los héroes más importantes de la gesta emancipadora de la nación mexicana. Así, hombres como Venustiano Carranza, Alvaro Obregón, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Madero, Pancho Villa, y muchos más, tienen cabida en este material que le aseguramos, le gustará de principio a fin.

Un audiolibro de alto calibre histórico. Desde el célebre Grito de Dolores de 1810, hasta la entrada del Ejército Trigarante a la Ciudad de México en 1821, la compleja, emocionante y fundamental guerra de independencia entre el ejército español y los insurgentes duró poco más de once años, tiempo en los que el futuro México iniciaría su def8initivo camino a la libertad y la vida republicana.

To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: He was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in Texas during the waning years of King Cotton.

This is a paper that I wrote very early during my undergraduate work, and I cannot promise that it is very good, but it does give a fair overview of what the Aztecs faced in their final days, at the hands of Cortes and his men. The Aztecs stood up against immeasurable odds, fighting whom they believed, at first, were their gods, finally returned to Earth. When they realized their error, it was too late.

Giuseppe Mantovani ci conduce alla scoperta del Messico degli aztechi attraverso il racconto della campagna di conquista di Cortez. Capiremo...

Chi sono i Maya? Cosa realmente si sa della loro civiltà davvero unica che per molti aspetti è ancora avvolta nel mistero? Furono un popolo organizzato in classi sociali, combattivo, con conoscenze scientifiche avanzate dal punto di vista matematico e in particolare astronomico. Conoscevano l'arte divinatoria e con i loro famosi calendari di pietra erano in grado di prevedere eventi futuri. Gli avvenimenti predetti e documentati che poi sono realmente accaduti, sono numerosissimi.

When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.

In 1826, when the story begins, the region was claimed by both Mexico and the United States. Neither country knew much about the lands crossed by such rivers as the Guadalupe, Brazos, Nueces, Trinity, and Rio Grande. Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, was part of a team sent out by the Mexican Boundary Commission to explore the area. His role was to collect specimens of flora and fauna and to record detailed observations of the landscapes and peoples through which the exploring party traveled.

In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted book” that first came into public view at Sotheby’s auction house in London in 1982, nearly 400 years after it was presumably made by Mexican artists and scribes. On folios of amate paper, the Codex includes two oversized maps and 300 painted illustrations accompanied by text in 16-century paleography.

On May 14th, 2003, the familiar risk taken by hopeful immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican-American border into the United States took a tragic turn. At least 74 illegal immigrants bound for Houston were crammed inside a sweltering truck trailer, which was found abandoned near Victoria...