Enrique Camarena, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent was abducted on February 7, 1985 near the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico and shortly after that, Capt. Alfredo Zavala, a DEA source, was abducted from a car near the Guadalajara Airport. They were tortured for over 30 hours and died. The two abductions would be one of the largest investigations ever conducted by the DEA. The case would involve major forensic problems. Many suspects were arrested and tried for 8 weeks in…
Guadalupe County Report Guadalupe County is the county that is the subject of my report. Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 then Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845. The Republic of Texas organized Guadalupe County as a judicial county in 1842, but discontinued it later that year when the Texas Supreme Court declared judicial counties to be unconstitutional. In March 1846 after the annexation, the legislature established Guadalupe County from parts of other counties.…
own destiny and with a little desire and motivation from the government left their lands in the east and pushed west. “The background for Manifest Destiny originated with the complex events in Texas.” (study) In 1836, Texans ousted the leader of Mexico Santa Anna and wanted to be annexed by the U.S., but with the hot topic of slavery surrounding politics at the time Texas became an independent republic instead. Ten year later Santa Anna returned with an army and The Mexican-American War began.…
Immigration has been a major problem that has been happening in this country. Many people believe that if you were not born in the United States of America, you have no right to come here for a chance to live. There are many people that come from countries all over the world trying to find a better life even if it means coming here illegally. The major problem is that the mentality many people have is that every person that is illegal is Mexican, or that every person of colored skin and dark…
Introduction Sepúveda has been known to make certain claims in regards to the defeat of the Aztec civilization to the Spaniards. Among many of those claims he states that the Indians possessed rude natures and limited intellectually capacity thus, they had no choice but to succumb their will to the Spaniards by Aristotle’s doctrine of natural slavery. This papers shall refute the aforementioned claims and gather evidence drawn from several works those of which include authors: Lockhart,…
where she and her friends have traveled. And they told me some stories about where they had traveled. And now I want to go and travel to Mexico. If I could travel anywhere in the world I would travel to Mexico. I would travel to Mexico because I want to go to a soccer game and see how they cook their food and ride some donkeys. To start I want to go to Mexico to try their food. They have some vendor stands for food across the side of the street. And they use different spices on the…
Between Mexico and the United States by Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States created in 1932 and it is an oil painting on canvas. at first glance seem to be a very busy painting. The dark gray and brown colors in the background reflect sadness and depression except a few areas that the artist used bright colors. The painting is divided into two sides with Kahlo standing in the middle. The left side of the painting represents Mexico,…
NAFTA is that mexico has an absolute advantage. Mexico produces the most outputs, meaning that they have an absolute advantage.They experienced dramatic increase in exports from about $60 billion in 1994, to about $400 billion in 2013. Also, Mexico has an absolute advantage in terms of jobs because more lower paying jobs are available in Mexico/ are the ones moving to mexico, and there are many people that are willing to take them. Also, If environmental standards were lowered for Mexico, they…
1. Should someone be able to patent life? Life should be able to be patented with many exceptions. Anything with a brain should not be able to be patented as that would be inhumane. However, tampering with the genes of other forms of life can become helpful to society. For example, microbes that can eat up oil spills can save many other living beings in the ocean. As well as this, having variety in foods is vital to prevent diseases wiping out a species of food that many people rely on. It…
Guatemala has many amazing and unusual facts like, there are 22 different native tribes that each speak their own language but, the official language of Guatemala is Spanish. The capital of Guatemala is Guatemala City. The city has over 5 million residents making it one of the most populated cities in Guatemala. The tallest mountain in Guatemala is the Tajamulco volcano it has in altitude above 14000 ft. Furthermore, there are many more awesome facts about Guatemala. There are many different…