Puebla

of 122.3 million people, México has 78.3% living in urban areas around the country. Looking at a cartogram of this pattern, one could tell that around the central band of México, including México City, Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, Xalapa, Veracruz, Puebla, Morelia, and Cuernavaca only covers 10% of the land but is home to more than half of all the Mexicans. The other 90% of land in México holds about 50 million people. Not only does this create a vast difference demographically, but also it…

The criticism of NAFTA has been prominent in the last eight years. It started with the campaigns run by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, when both criticized such an agreement and often referred to it as a failure. Most recently the president of the United States has also described it as such. However, there’s a very important narrative being erased from the conversation and that is how NAFTA impacted Mexico in a negative way. In a way that did not impact the other two nations. As Barack Obama…

This paper has three aims. The utmost importance is to contribute to the understanding of the reinterpretation on the 35 year regime of Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911), highlighting the major achievements increasing the Mexican economy, and the fall of the thirty-five year regime. Despite the previous interpretation of Porfirio Diaz regime as an enigma, his government considered as a dictatorship, and inflicting injustice all around the country. It has been said that it is better to regret an action…

Finally, one of the most recognized indigenous Mexican groups is the Aztec, is also the most powerful kingdom of all time in Mesoamerica. This enormous empire reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present day-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people lived in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities paying tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the great Aztec empire. The Aztec spoke a version of…

realized his true strength laid in war and soon enrolled in the military. He was known for his tenacity and rigor in battle and worked his way through the ranks, but the event that led him to stand out as a military hero was his victory in the Battle of Puebla, and he furthered chased his ambitions into politics. In his first election, Diaz was defeated by his own mentor Benito Juarez, but unhappy with the results, Diaz drafted a plan that would forbid the reelection of…

of past artists like Joan Baez who used music to stand for what she, and many others believed, to be morally and politically correct. Joan Baez was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York. Her parents were Albert Baez, a physicist from Puebla, Mexico, and Joan Bridge of Edinburgh, Scotland. During her early years as a child, Baez knew and felt isolated for being “different”― she had darker skin,…

A Chicana is defined as a woman either born in Mexico or of Mexican descent. Most people would just leave it at that but a Chicana is so much more than that. Elizabeth Martinez is a feminist author who wants to change how “La Chicana” and women everywhere are treated. One of her famous works La Chicana shows the struggle Mexican-American women have endured and are currently going through. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Mexican-American women have been oppressed and how their…

The dire wolf, or Canis dirus, is a wolf that lived during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) and became extinct between 10,000 to 16,000 years ago during the ice age. It was native to North America and thousands of Dire Wolf skeletons were found and stored in La Brea tar pits in southern California, where it is believed to be the most common mammal in the area. Remains of the Dire wolf have also been found across a broad range of habitats in North America, which include the…

Chocolate is a worldwide snack that has been around since 1400’s (Szogyi 1997). According to Albright (1997), both Cacoa and America has been discovered around the same time. Chocolate is a mixture cocoa, sugar, cocoa fat, milk fat and many other ingredients (Fao, 1992). It’s a homogeneous product sold all over the world in a billion euro industry (Badiner & Hill, 2013). Chocolate is very popular food product, according to a focus group research Monaco, Ollila and Tuorila (2004) conducted, it…

he practiced human sacrifice. This facilitated Cortés attack on Montezuma; Cortés had help from local natives that wanted to see Montezuma dead. Night of Tears June 30, 1520 Cortes lost a lot of Spanish and Native Indian men that night as a war broke out. Cortes was being insubordinate to Cuba governor and would not return to Cuba. This caused governor Velasquez to attack Cortes. Cortes left Lutenant Alvarez in charge while Cortes left Tenochtitlan, Alvarez made a big mistake by killing…