History of Mexico

progressed really quickly. The “narcocorridos” talk about a variety of topics. These are about drug lords, arrests, operations within the mafia, shootouts and betrayals. Corridos have had a negative impact as well in Mexico. The “narcocorridos” talk about different cartels within Mexico. This makes it difficult because it builds controversy with artists and…

mile migration route through which a young Honduran boy, Enrique ventured on to travel north to the United States in hopes of finding his mother. This project was awarded the 2003 Pultizer Prize for photography. The photograph was shot in the Chiapas Mexico countryside. The photo includes a young boy and girl as they race their horse alongside of a Honduran cargo train. The fleeting scene of the youngsters seemed to have brought a few moments of joy to the Honduran stowaways who have learned to…

Mexico Mission Trip Can one weekend change your whole life? For me one weekend did change my entire life. It was the weekend I went to Imuris, Mexico to an orphanage for a mission trip. Before that trip I was only thinking about myself and was caught up in getting everything that I want. I would have never thought that it would all change after I went on one mission trip. I decided to go to Mexico because my sister had gone on mission trips when she was in high school and I wanted to do the…

values, and merges them together to create a unique and culturally diverse person. Many have heard the word, many have used the word, but did we ever stopped to think about the real social value and controversy this word carries in its meaning? The history of mestizos and mestizaje should serve as a role model of how merging cultures can have a great and positive impact in the world, but it should also be a lesson on the struggles of being portrayed or expected to act as a certain nationality,…

have a low unemployment rate of only 4.9%. Their inflation rate is 4%. They also have a GDP of $2.1 trillion. Mexicans have a moderately free economic freedom. Even though Mexico's economy may seem pretty stable they have a big problem with drugs. Mexico is slowly being taken over by mexican drug cartels like El Chapo for example. Just last week the mexican government released data showing some interesting death rates. Between 2007 and 2014 more than 164,000 people died from encounters with the…

With the family surnames of Rasmussen and Anderson it is clear that the beginnings of my Family of Origin are mainly Danish, so describing my family as a taco might be shocking. Both, my family and a taco are structurally cohesive. (Olson, 2000) We have boundaries, yet we aren’t enmeshed. Often the ingredients try to slip out of the tortilla and some ingredients can be eaten without anything added or taken away from them, such as cheese. When each ingredient is included and stays in the taco…

I was asked to research and report on a current world issue. I chose to research the drug world in Mexico. Before researching this topic, I already knew drug trade is a common thing in Mexico, drugs are imported and exported from and to Mexico and many people are killed because of reasons related to drugs. A couple of things I wanted to know about this topic were how drug trade has affected Mexico economically and the normal way of living and how much violence had been directly tied to the…

On an early Friday morning in 1997 at her Los Angeles home , Pulitzer prize winning national bestselling author Sonia Nazario, had an unexpected and personal conversation with her Guatemalan housekeeper Carmen. This conversation sparked a curiosity on why mothers from Central America, like Carmen, would leave their children & family for a life in the United States. This curiosity ultimately led to Nazario creating her book, “Enrique's Journey”, in which she uses several rhetorical devices,…

Imagine walking back to town after a long vacation, after arriving and looking around one may find that no one is there and the place is completely abandoned. Thats a lot like what happened to the Mayans. The Mayans lived in Mesoamerica from 1800 B.C. to 900 A.D. The Mayan civilization reached its peak of power in the sixth century A.D. and had a peak population of two million. The Mayan are most known for disappearing in 900 A.D., a mystery still unknown. There are many theories around their…

two neighboring countries. “US historians refer to this event as ‘The Mexican War’, in Mexico its called ‘The US Invasion’ (Doc. C, paragraph 1).” The Mexican War had lasted two years, 1846 to 1848. Ten years before the war, Texas had declared its independence from Mexico in 1836. Not long before that, in 1821, Mexico had declared independence from Spain. The United States was unjustified in going to war with Mexico because Americans abused the idea of the Manifest Destiny, broke the laws the…