We call on everyone to unite around the interests of our people and our motherland.

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She said she had "happily accepted this glorious task for the future of our Motherland!"

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And then they disappeared to the vast peripheries of our motherland.

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"It's time that we Mexicans retake the beauty and simplicity of our motherland's name: Mexico. (It's) a name that we use when chanting or singing, a name that identifies us throughout the world and that makes us proud, " Calderon said.

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