President of Mexico

Martinez as he gathers stories from those in the village of Cherán after the death of the three Chávez brothers: Benjamin, Jaime, and Salvador. Through this, Martinez collects stories of the families in Cheran, a small village in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Through the collection of these stories, Martinez states in the end of the first part of the novel a prophecy: the cultural hybridization of the Mexicans in the United States will lead to a browning of the America. In other words,…

del Rio, Durango, Mexico. His full name was José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, but his nickname were either Pancho Villa or Francisco Villa. Pancho Villa was one of the the top military leaders of the Mexican Revolution. Villa started off as a bandit. He was later inspired by reformer Francisco Madero, who helped him win the Mexican Revolution. After being with with Victoriano Huerta, he formed his own army to oppose the dictator. He was assassinated on July 20, 1923, in Parral, Mexico. The…

Immigration in El Cajon Immigrants struggle coming to the U.S from Mexico because there is a lot of Border patrol guarding people from getting into the state. This should not be tolerable in the U.S. I believe that this is a huge problem for our country and it has to be stopped. Did you know that we get 332,197 new immigrants in california each year? All these people want is a place to refuge. A motivation for immigrants to come illegally into the U.S is to chase their so called “American…

El Chapo is one of the most powerful drug lords that's ever lived, and he proves that by being a two-time prison escapee. Both prison escapes were extremely embarrassing for the president and the country. The first escape from a mexican prison, El Chapo slipped into a laundry cart and was successfully smuggled out. The second escape he stepped into a shower and slipped into a tunnel, nearly a mile long. After he was captured, he “bragged…

between the different cartels that have fragmented over time, causing ever more bloodshed. The smuggling began in earnest during the long reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, but it was just that – smuggling. Most of the drugs coming through Mexico were actually from Columbia, Peru, and other more southern countries. However, more recently, since the US broke up cocaine smuggling networks in the Caribbean in the 1980s, Mexican cartels have taken on a much larger role in the…

Amado Carrillo alias The Lord of the Skies was a Mexican drug trafficker in the 80s. He born on december 17, 1956 on Sinaloa, Mexico. He came from a poor family of drug dealers. One of his uncle introduced him to the business at the age of 25. And created the Cartel of Juarez. Carrillo own airplanes that use to transport the illegal drug such as cocaine and heroin to United States…

fascinating. Reading Sleuthing the Alamo was just a reminder of how of my ancestors were treated by the people that said that they were here to “show us salvation”. Learning about all these “war heroes” and how they helped gain their independence from Mexico was a complete act of selfishness. For all we know Sam Houston could have been a part of…

substantive policy change even if it involved the amending of the Constitution. According to the Mexican Constitution, the role of the president of the Republic is more that of a guardian of policy stability than a promoter of policy change. However, for a long time, while PRI hegemony lasted, the policy-making process was centralized in the executive branch. The president was the prime source of policy change and Congress remained subordinated to the presidential initiative. As a matter of…

impacts to Mexico’s sovereignty through drug trafficking. The three main points in this essay will be, the impact of drug related violence, corruption due to drug trafficking and the exportation of drugs out of Mexico. Each point will reflect the problem and the effects of the problem within Mexico. It will also reflect on how the Mexican government tried to combat the problem in close reference to the reign of Felipe Calderon who took presidency in 2006 which is a key element when arguing the…

nation’s [US] prosperity than Mexicans, yet none makes white America more uneasy about the future (Gonzalez, 2011, p. 96). Mexico is at the core of our country’s Latin heritage and every 2 in 3 Latinos in America are Mexican. But, how did Mexicans get to the discrimination that they are suffering today? In this paper, I will show the violence Mexicans endured following the U.S.-Mexico War, and the many Mexicans groups who were fighting back against their Anglo counterparts, and the Mexican…