Mexican history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/5/2022
  

  There's More to Cinco De Mayo than Many Americans Know

  by Ruben A. Arellano

  American Cinco de Mayo celebrations emerged at a time when ethnic Mexicans who were made Mexican-American by the US conquest of their homes looked to Mexico's defeat of a French imperialist invasion in 1862 for inspiration at a time when the Confederacy threatened to expand into the southwest.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/18/2022
  

  The Contradictions of AMLO and Mexico

  by Humberto Beck and Patrick Iber

  Mexico's first left-wing president in the era of competitive elections has followed through on populist promises to reduce inequality, but has increasingly personalized authority and equated loyalty to his regime with public service. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/12/2021
  

  Vicente 'Chente' Fernández, 'El Rey' of Ranchera Music, has Died at 81

  "Fernandez became an important icon for Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and around the world – who found that his music transported them to the ranches and towns they'd reluctantly left behind in search of opportunity abroad."

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11/12/2021
  

  The Last Emperor of Mexico (Review)

  As the younger brother of the Austrian emperor, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was a perfect figurehead for Napoleon III of France's efforts to create a puppet regime in Mexico. Things didn't go the way he hoped. 

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• 10/17/2021
  

  The Fantasy of Hispanic Heritage Month

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Conceived by a Congressman to honor the contributions of ethnic Mexicans to American society, Hispanic Heritage Month is based in a mythical Spanish past that obscures the indigenous history of the west and legitimates the succession of power from Iberian to Anglo elites. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  9/28/2021
  

  Colonial-Era Papers Stolen from Mexican National Archives Returned

  "Thanks to a group of eagle-eyed scholars, a trove of stolen colonial-era documents has been returned to Mexico City."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  9/17/2021
  

  The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Washington History Seminar, Mon. 9/27)

  Eric Zolov addresses the Washington History Seminar to talk about his revisionist interpretation of Mexican history in the 1960s, when the government tried "to broaden Mexico's international relations and break free of economic subordination to Washington." Zoom, Monday, Sept. 27, 4:00 PM EDT. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/3/2021
  

  Americans Sought Safer Abortions in Mexico Before Roe, Too

  by Lina-Maria Murillo

  "No matter what antiabortion crusaders try, pregnant people will always find ways to have abortions — and networks that go beyond borders have long helped them navigate treatment options."

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• 8/8/2021
  

  Drug Prohibition and the Political Roots of Cartel Violence in Mexico

  by Benjamin T. Smith

  Violence is not so much in the DNA of the drug trade as the DNA of drug prohibition. And until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence won’t stop.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/1/2021
  

  Historian: Americans All Need To Study Mexico

  NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Harvard history professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga about her recent op-ed titled, "Every American needs to take a history of Mexico class."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/22/2021
  

  Every American Needs to Take a History of Mexico Class

  by Gabriela Soto Laveaga

  Understanding the history of the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Mexico deepens understanding not just of the relationship between nations, but of the complexity of history as opposed to simplistic nationalist myths. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/26/2021
  

  Pancho Villa, My Grandmother, and the Revolutionary History of the Border

  by Carlos Sanchez

  Conflicting family and neighborhood stories about the life of Pancho Villa – bandit or revolutionary? – showed the author how little of the complexity of the Mexican Revolution and the experiences of ethnic Mexican people made it into his school books in El Paso. Will new Texas laws push this knowledge back into the shadows? 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/7/2021
  

  ‘Lady of Guadalupe’ Avoids Tough Truths About the Catholic Church and Indigenous Genocide

  by Rebecca Janzen

  "Although it portrays the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe for a broad audience, ultimately this film sanitizes the real-life brutality of the Church toward Indigenous peoples in the 16th century."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/16/2021
  

  Mexico Faces Up to Uneasy Anniversary of Chinese Massacre

  The 1911 massacre of Chinese laborers in the town of Torreón shows that Asian migrants were subjected to mass violence throughout the Americas. The Mexican government and society have only recently begun to acknowledge this and other incidents.  

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  4/20/2021
  

  What Does President Biden Need To Understand About Mexico?

  Historian Patrick Iber discusses the current politics of Mexico and the historical nature of the country's relationship with its northern neighbor. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/24/2021
  

  The Immovable AMLO

  by Humberto Beck, Carlos Bravo Regidor and Patrick Iber

  "AMLO continues to decry the faults of neoliberalism, but his government is, for the most part, failing to build an effective alternative to it."

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• SOURCE: University of California Press
  2/9/2021
  

  Who Gets to Govern the Global Economy?

  by Christy Thornton

  Johns Hopkins Latin Americanist Christy Thornton describes her book "Revolution In Development" and its contribution to understanding how Mexican officials fought against dismissive treatment from the world's leading economic powers as they sought a voice in shaping the international economic order. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/11/2021
  

  The Problem of Environmental Racism in Mexico Today is Rooted in History

  by Jayson Maurice Porter

  The marginalization of Afro-Mexican history in the state of Guerrero is product of a history of government-sanctioned development that harmed marginalized communities; ignorance of that history prevents considering policy solutions that could advance environmental justice in areas harmed by tourism development and deforestation. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/26/2021
  

  How Mexico Reshaped the Global Economy: Interview With Christy Thornton

  The Mexican government demanded a program of economic reparations to the developing world, but the system of international aid and trade that emerged worsened exploitation. 

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• 4/7/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian of Mexico Pablo Piccato

  by Erik Moshe

  He hopes historians claim a stronger voice in the public sphere to talk about the present under the light of the past.