President of Mexico

relationship between the neighboring countries of Mexico and the United States of America. Throughout the novel the nine stories, all contain different people and their experience with however it’s not till the end when the stories all interact with one another, to fully understand what Fuentes was trying to portray by telling these stories. One person who constantly made an appearance was Don Leonardo Barroso a very well-known business man working in Mexico and the US and accurately depicted…

and promotes creativity. Mora’s choice in subject matter and theme, in her poems, are shaped by life in the US-Mexican border, for example in La Migra. This poem is about a global issue, illegal immigration; especially in Texas near the border to Mexico. It is tiled in a Mexican slang that means U.S border agents. It is divided into two stanzas to express the two point of views of a border patrol agent and a Mexican woman crossing the border. The characters seem to be two children playing an…

conductor, journalist, educator and even founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra in 1928. He was heavily influenced by the indigenous music of Mexico and has composed seven symphonies. Although he is primarily remembered for his work as a composer, a lot of his work revolved around playing his piano. Carlos Chavez was born on June 13th of 1899 in Mexico…

MEChA is a Mexican-American student organization that encourages cultural education and political activism. In their 1969 founding manifesto“El Plan de Santa Barbara”, they outline the basic ideas of what it means to be Chicanx. Using this document, we can determine what Mexican-Americans believed to be the root of their struggle and the type of people it would take to overcome it. The manifesto starts off by saying “For all peoples … the time comes when they must reckon with their history”…

The Tarantella is one of the oldest Italian folk dance that can be traced back to the middle Ages. Many labelled the tarantella the dance of healing/cure of the sick and courtship. It is also one of the most known, popularized, traditional dance in Italian society. The tarantella is characterized by upbeat music followed by a lead singer. The dance is also accompanied by light and quick steps mixed with teasing, flirtatious gestures between partners. Included in the music is a live 6/8 time…

popular cultures that characterize each single human that transformers our history. For instance, Porfirio Diaz is a key symbol in Latin America because he was the president of Mexico for more than thirty years who establish a connection between the revolution of Mexico. Therefore, Porfirio Diaz is one of the many important symbols in Mexico; he influenced culture in many ways and for the purpose of this essay, Porfirio Diaz will be deconstructed in terms of his symbolic introduction of the…

He uses Aura, Felipe Montero, and Consuelo as a reflection of the past and the present, where Consuelo represents the past and Felipe the present. In this analogy, Aura represents what Mexico could become. Mexican history is hard to understand because it is intertwined with myth, therefore to understand Mexico we need to understand its mythical past. Part of this paper, I will investigate how myth breaks down into different elements, such as religion, legends, traditions, beliefs, all of which…

Mexico is a nation found in North America, sharing a northern border with the United States and a southern one with Belize and Guatemala. To the west lies the Pacific Ocean and to the east is the Gulf of Mexico. The country is part of the Northern and Western Hemispheres. As a federal republic, it is also officially known as the United Mexican States much like the United States of America. As a one of the largest nations in the world, Mexico is almost three times the size of Texas;…

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter, and he was largely based on the historical roots of Mexico. He had many great contributions to American societies during the beginning half of the twentieth century. Rivera’s main goal was for his art to revolutionize the world. Rivera was always a very radical person, and it reflected in his art; at the peak of Rivera’s art career he was caught in the middle of a revolution of politics and technology, which made his views in support of communism and…

in Chiapas, Mexico with leaders of the Zapatistas movement and later partook in the organization of another delegation to march into Mexico City with the Zapatistas and along side head vehicles of Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista movement. In 2000 Dr. Navarro organized protests in Arizona and brought in Mexican elected officials to rally against the Rancho Vigilantes who were apprehending immigrants at gunpoint. During 2005- 2006 Dr. Navarro led 6 more delegations to Mexico to…