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Today is Feb. 4 and a holiday in Mexico. Today’s holiday celebrates the declaration of the country’s Magna Carta. The constitution was declared in 1917, seven years after the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. The Revolution itself would continue for a couple more decades but the declaration of this constitution marked a turning point in […]
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Who was Lázaro Cárdenas? He was the President of Mexico from 1935 to 1940. He was said to be one of the most honest and dedicated of all Mexican presidents. During his campaign, he visited many rural villages and towns, the likes of which had a never before seen a presidential candidate far less a […]
Read MoreWhile many around the world celebrated Halloween on Wednesday (Oct 31), in Mexico and (by people of Mexican heritage throughout the world) a different but somewhat related festival takes place today: Día de los Muertos. (Day of the Dead) In some parts of Mexico, children do incorporate the more American tradition of Halloween into Día […]
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Mexican Independence Day celebrations begin at 11:00 p.m. on the night of September 15. The sitting President of Mexico reenacts the Grito de Dolores from the balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City. The President even rings the very same bell that was rung by Padre Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla as part of his […]
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century nun, self-taught scholar and acclaimed writer of the Latin American colonial period. She was also a staunch advocate for women’s rights. (Biography.com) In previous articles we explored the issue of gender in Latin America and how specifically women were/ are confined within two […]
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In Part 1 of this topic, we defined and compared Machismo and Marianismo. In Part 2 we discussed the history and symbolism of La Virgen de Guadalupe. In this third and final segment we will explore the second archetype against which women are judged: La Malinche. Who was La Malinche? La Malinche (or Malinalli or Malintzin as […]
Read MoreA very interesting blog post from Pulse News Mexico on the recent election of AMLO and what the results could mean for one of the oldest political parties in the world. At the presidential residence of Los Pinos, President Enrique Peña Nieto and his cabinet met during the afternoon of the elections to receive the bad news […]
Read MoreWhile doing some research on Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco for a series I’d like to do do later on, I came across this post by Gabriela on another Mexican artist, Alfredo Ramos Martínez. I enjoyed learning more about this painter and seeing his works which often depicted indigenous women, especially as flower vendors. The indigenous woman […]
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In Part 1 of this topic, we defined and compared Machismo and Marianismo. In Parts 2 and 3 we’ll discuss the two archetypes against which women are judged: La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Malinche. In academic literature they are sometimes referred to as the ‘saint’ and the ‘whore’ respectively. Women are either perfectly godly or seductively […]
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I had expected to do an Argentina World Cup post, similar to the one I did on Brazil. Because who doesn’t think of Brazil and Argentina when it comes to Latin American football? But when I was scheduling this post I’d almost given up hope for them qualifying for the next round! Some of my […]
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