In the modern history of Mexico, for example, a big landmark was the introduction, 15 years ago, of text-books that were a bit less anti-American.
The intertwined history of America and Mexico and their common border make Hispanics a somewhat different demographic group than, say, Irish or Italian immigrants used to be.
Without knowing the history of the Cenotes in Mexico, I was determined to dive in a cave and conquer my fear of what I could not see.
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The Museo de la Policia Preventiva del DF (Museum of the Preventive Police of Mexico City) has a few permanent, no-holds-barred exhibitions about assassins and the history of the death penalty, which was abolished in Mexico in 2005.
Many attribute the long history of high criminal activity in Mexico to the country's soft legal system.
If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.
We have the first extraditions in history of suspected criminals, charged criminals, from Mexico to the United States.
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Much of the oil has dissipated from the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that haunted the Gulf of Mexico last year, but one of the worst man-made disasters in US history is still taking its toll on tourism to the region.
Some investors are allocating money towards countries with beaten-up currencies, such as India or Russia, or those with more benign central banks, such as Mexico, that do not have a history of frequent forex intervention.
The findings were presented during the second meeting of Historic Archaeology, in Mexico's National History Museum.
"They are very innovative and tied to reality, " says Elio Masferrer, an anthropologist and expert on religion at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
The oil spill damaged the Gulf of Mexico coast causing one of the biggest environmental disasters in US history.
The explosion in April of that year of a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the largest offshore oil spill in the country's history.
For many generations, successive U.S. presidents have given those orders, from early in our Nation's history in places like Montezuma's palaces in Mexico to the Barbary pirates' shores of Tripoli, and more recently from the halls of Saddam Hussein to the pirate-infested coast of Somalia.
It was an absurd amount of money for the bank to lend Stern, whose business history included operating clothing distribution companies that imported clothes from Mexico and two contentious corporate bankruptcies.
The monuments, located in Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio and Washington, help tell the story of significant people and extraordinary events in American history, as well as protect unique natural resources for the benefit of all Americans.
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