Music of Mexico

distinguished themselves both as international narcotics traffickers and highly competent executioners (Mexico Gulf Reporter), they thrive on torture, dropping enemies into barrels of acid, beheadings, castrations, and the dismemberment of victims before they die. A former deputy attorney general, then in charge of Mexico's Office for Organized Crime Special Investigation, said Yucatán state and half of Mexico belonged to the Zetas. Their professional trademarks include decapitations of…

Culture Identity is a better understanding in comparison to other cultures. Culture Identity is shaped by family, life’s expercision and perceptions of the world. It also influences everything from how we relate to others to who we are.Culture Identity is something that everyone has, I think that my cultural identity is very interesting because it involves different things. First of all, my ethnicity is hispanic, I come from two hispanic parent. I have always been raised in a hispanic household…

wasn’t even planning on coming here helped colonize it to what Texas is today. Cabeza originally heading towards Mexico and ended crashing into what is now modern day Galveston Island and made Texas what it is today. Cabeza traveled all the way around Texas and soon met up with an Indian tribe who took him as a work slave which he soon escaped from them and he and his partners walked to Mexico city over a 21 month trip and a lot of friendly and not friendly indian tribes. Cabeza De Vaca: How did…

intellectuals brought with them a liberal attitude and a staunch abolitionist point of view. As the Civil War began, many of these German intellectuals and farmers opposed secession from the union. In the summer of 1862, they planned to travel to Mexico in order to avoid conscription into the Confederate army. A group of 94 Confederate soldiers led by lieutenant McRae followed after them. They approached the Germans in the night and massacred them with little resistance. While the Confederates…

Ever since I can remember, my life has always been filled with culture. From multiple quincerias to every dinner having a side of beans and rice. However, I wouldn’t change it for the world because thanks to my distance to the border, it has made a large part of who I am. Growing up, I remember I would always been teased for how close I lived to the border; that I could walk to the border, and if I kicked my ball over my fence, it would land in the Rio Grande River. Besides growing up very…

Femme de Rien With pledges of equality and nativist attitudes injected in the veins of Latin America for independence efforts, Spanish diplomat’s wife Frances Calderón de la Barca reflects those empty promises through her 1840 journal entries about Mexican high society. In her account, Calderón describes the tension surrounding her decision in wearing what she called a poblana dress, the Mexican elite worried she would appear as a “femme de rien” as if the dress worn by a woman from Puebla was…

During the Romantic Era in the United States, the previous rationale of uniting the country and correcting domestic affairs was transitioned towards westward expansion and nature; making the exemplary American a man of the frontier. The United States was no longer content with its success of the American Revolution, and sought to expand its country. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for merely pennies per acre. The Louisiana Purchase was the start of…

Modern Sonara-Arizona was formed by miners that are from New Spain that rushed over there for bonanzas. With new people entering Sonara came new diseases that killed off most of the natives. Senora had most water resources than any other Northern Mexico state. Before the U.S obtained Sonora most indigenous people did not see themselves are Mexicans or Senorenses. Even though indigenous population outnumbered the non-natives, they were racial tensions in Senora, the people that were not mix…

decision to extend America forwards. Unfortunately, how America would move forward, had to be settled between the Abolitionists and pro-slavery parties, which didn't look like it was to be settled anytime soon.  Why did President Polk go to war with Mexico? Why did the war become so divisive in Congress and the country? The war was started to obtain Mexican land for capitalist production. It was also to create a continental nation with trading post near Asia. It was fueled by a Manifest…

of 1996. This growth would continue until 2008 when Mexico would find itself with high inflation rates and low economic growth. A. President Ernesto Zedillo 1994-2000 Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, was President of Mexico from 1994-2000. To many Mexicans during his leadership he was a hero. This was because Zedillo did not perpetuate the PRI. Before winning the Presidency in 1994 Zedillo was not even in the running to become President of Mexico. That man was Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta.…