Latino leaders tell Murray immigration laws are 'ripping families apart' Nov 14, 2009
crowsfeet wrote on Nov 13, 2009 10:03 AM:" "they earned $22 for one bin and it took two and a half hours" -- Sounds like minimum wage, just pick faster and make more money. Try getting hired in an orchard nowadays if your a US citizen. There would be a new Mexican revolution if enough employable US citizens showed up at the orchard to work instead of at the welfare office. ". somedude wrote on Nov 13, 2009 10:05 AM:" I agree, These family's should have thought of this before they left their... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Massacre at Goliad Nov 8, 2009
The Mexican Revolution Bankrupts Mexico. When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1824, the country was bankrupt. (Suite101.com)
Murals on a mission from the Mission Nov 6, 2009
The de Young is hosting a yearlong event series, culminating Nov. 5, 2010, with "Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution.". Info. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Mexicans take UN office Nov 1, 2009
The OCEZ is a land rights group inspired by Zapata, a key figure in the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910. The three prisoners were arrested last weekend by the police and army on charges of using the group for drug and arms trafficking. (iAfrica.com)
Big Bend people: A life of faith, family, church Oct 30, 2009
The Mexican Revolution had a direct impact on the young and fatherless family. Fernando, fearing the persecution of the Villistas and for the protection of his own welfare, changed his name to Fernando Reyes. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
* Mexico seizes electrical utility Oct 13, 2009
We wont let them privatize our company and let them deprive 66,000 families of their livelihood, union president Martin Esparza told a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered at a monument to the Mexican Revolution. Esparza, who has not been recognized as union leader by the government because of alleged irregularities during his re-election, then led demonstrators on a march through downtown Mexico City to interior department headquarters, where hundreds of riot-police stood guard. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Follow the money Oct 8, 2009
In fact, if you tally the worldwide death tolls for World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Iran-Iraq war and the Mexican Revolution, the civil wars in China and Russia and Spain, and all the other wars of the last century, from Afghanistan to Zaire, the total is less than one-third of the smallpox death toll. And that's just a single 100-year period, for a disease that disfigured Egyptian pharaohs, allied with Hernando Cortes to rout the Aztecs, left a young George Washington... (Asia Times Online)
Mexico City Announces International Tourism Fair of the Americas 2010 Oct 3, 2009
FITA 2010 will coincide with the bicentennial celebration of Mexico's Independence and the centennial celebration of the Mexican Revolution. For more information on the Tourism Fair of the Americas 2010, please visit. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
In Mexico, where state is vital to arts, museums struggling Sep 20, 2009
Many museums in Mexico rely heavily on government money, part of what is seen here as a legacy of the Mexican Revolution, whose goal to modernize the country included building up education and the arts. With the state taking such an active role, the tradition of philanthropic support for museums lagged. (Boston Globe)
Interview with Candice Crain Aug 24, 2009
"They came from my Grandfather's side," she explains, "from Fresno, Zacatecas in the north of Mexico. His siblings and his parents escaped the Mexican Revolution, before he was born, by crossing over into Texas. My Great-Grandpa and Great Uncles worked on the railroad and my Grandpa was the first to be born in the USA.". The Future. (Suite101.com)
Vollmann’s ‘Imperial’ takes readers to dark Mexico-US border region Aug 9, 2009
The pieces in Vollmann s jigsaw puzzle called Imperial are generally familiar stories about the western homesteaders fighting over water, about the profits to be made on citrus fruits and lettuce here, about East of Eden, about the Mexican Revolution and Zapata, about the Okies and their troubles, about the Bracero Program and Cesar Chavez, about the maquilladoras and narco corridos (the prohibited ballads about drug dealers), about the pollos and the coyotes whom immigrants pay to take them... (Boston Globe)
Mary H. Robinson Aug 6, 2009
In 1912, the violence of the Mexican Revolution forced the family to move to Douglas, where Mary s sisters, twins Refugio and Esperanza, died in 1913. Mary and her remaining sister, Amanda, attended Washington (Seventh Street) School, which was in the same block as today s Sarah Marley School. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Regional battle Jul 22, 2009
The slogan of the Mexican Revolution - 'sufragio efectivo, no re-eleccion' (an effective vote and no re-election) - was seen as democratising ... The slogan of the Mexican Revolution - 'sufragio efectivo, no re-eleccion' (an effective vote and no re-election) - was seen as democratising. (BBC News -- Americas)
Drug Dealing for Jesus: Mexico's Evangelical Narcos Jul 19, 2009
Quoted in local newspapers, the scripture paints an ideology that mixes Evangelical-style self help with insurgent peasant slogans reminiscent of the Mexican Revolution. "I ask God for strength and he gives me challenges that make me strong; I ask him for wisdom and he gives me problems to resolve; I ask him for prosperity and he gives me brain and muscles to work," Moreno writes using terms that could be found in many Christian sermons preached from Mississippi to Brazil. (Time.com)
Why I'm American Jul 5, 2009
The fourth grandparent, my father's father, came to the United States legally as a boy during the Mexican Revolution, which lasted from 1910 to 1920. Of course, my grandpa gets no gold star for that, since -- in a fact lost on readers who boast that their ancestors came "legally" in the 19th century -- immigration wasn't widely restricted until 1924. (CNN)
A classic revolutionary dilemma Jun 30, 2009
All the revolutions of the last century, starting with the Mexican revolution of 1910, were secular and focused on changing property and class relations. Not the one in Iran. (Asia Times Online)
'Viva Mexico!' shows how Edward Weston was transformed Jun 5, 2009
"Excusado" is one of several well-known Weston images in "Viva Mexico!" Others are his almost giddily moon-faced portrait, "Rose Roland (Covarrubias)"; pear-shaped "Nude, Anita Brenner"; and "Galvan Shooting." Weston's friend Manuel Hernandez Galvan had been a general in the Mexican Revolution. As the title of the portrait suggests, the image captures him focused on a target. (Boston Globe)
'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact Jun 5, 2009
In the battle to win hearts and minds after the 1910 Mexican Revolution, artists in that country had two options ... Emiliano Zapata was a hero of the Mexican Revolution, and he's shown in Rivera's print holding the reins of a sleek and sinuous white horse. (Boston Globe)
Cultural jackpot May 30, 2009
"Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries" and "Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints" celebrate Mexico's cultural renaissance following the Mexican Revolution. The former highlights rare photos by Edward Weston, and works by Tina Modotti, Paul Strand, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. (Boston Globe)
Mex. museum teaches kids about money May 29, 2009
A collection of coins and bills, including a coin made of pottery during the 1910- 20 Mexican Revolution. Most read. (AZCentral -- News)
Swine Flu: The Political Stakes for Mexico's Government — and Obama Apr 30, 2009
That would be bad news for Mexico, and bad news for the U.S. The PRI came to power in 1929 by reestablishing order after the bloody chaos of the Mexican Revolution. It set up an elective dictatorship, one of the world's most corrupt, infamous for ballot-box fraud and notorious for blaming all its epic failings on Washington. (Time.com)
Company aims for end to mine strike in Mexico; union resolute Apr 12, 2009
He pointed out the Mexican Revolution started nearly 100 years ago, in 1910, and the Mexican war of independence began 100 years earlier, in 1810. Interestingly enough, the killing of some strikers in Cananea by Arizona Rangers in 1906 is considered one the main events that led to the Mexican Revolution. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Juarez: Running the Most Dangerous City in the Americas Mar 30, 2009
The Mexican Revolution and maquiladora assembly plants began here; Juarez was the first city to elect an opposition mayor during the PRI's rule. Will it be the first to create a model police force. (Time.com)
Full story..... Mar 28, 2009
He retired in 1993 and returned to research interests including Trans-Pecos cacti and the history of the Big Bend, particularly as affected by the Mexican Revolution 1910-20. Raun served for almost 10 years as editor of the Texas Journal of Science and was a fellow and honorary life member of the Texas Academy of Science. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Don't cry for us America Mar 25, 2009
This may be the most serious crisis we have faced since the 1910 Mexican Revolution and its immediate aftermath. More than 7,000 people, most of them connected to the drug trade or law enforcement, have died since January 2008. (International Herald Tribune)
The lessons in the game Mar 22, 2009
The students read the book in four weeks while learning about the Mexican Revolution, the history of Mexican immigration to the United States, the challenges of being an emigrant, the rights of workers to protest for fair labor conditions, the factors that lead people to migrate generally, classism, racism, Ellis Island, Angel Island and historical trends in immigration to the United States. At that time, moving to the United States was much easier than it is today. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Mexico Treasure Hunters Die While Searching for Loot Mar 4, 2009
Many old estates were abandoned during the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution, when their rich owners fled. Legends persist about the caches of valuables left behind or looted by rebels during the revolution. (Fox News)
Mexican prints: From posters to art Feb 26, 2009
But little was it realized that Diego Rivera also made graphic art, as revealed by a lithograph dated 1932 depicting Emiliano Zapata, hero of the Mexican Revolution ... Other mural artists such as Jos Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) also took to printmaking at a time when they and other artists, during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) to overthrow the 30-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, sought to pursue social change through the use of direct visual art... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Fast Facts: Mexico Feb 12, 2009
The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON.. (CBS News -- World)
Complete Grammy Award coverage Feb 10, 2009
Tejano Album: Viva La Revolucion, Ruben Ramos and The Mexican Revolution (Revolution). Norteno Album: Raices, Los Tigres Del Norte (Fonovisa). (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
List of early winners of Grammy Awards Feb 8, 2009
Es Un Ratico," Juanes Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album: "45," Jaguares Best Latin Urban Album: "Los Extraterrestres," Wisin y Yandel Best Tropical Latin Album: "Senor Bachata," Jose Feliciano Best Regional Mexican Album: "Amor, Dolor Y Lagrimas: Musica Ranchera," Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano; "Canciones De Amor," Mariachi Divas Best Tejano Album: "Viva La Revolucion," Ruben Ramos & The Mexican Revolution Best Norteno Album: "Raices," Los Tigres Del Norte Best Banda Album: "No Es De... (Xinhuanet, China)
