Mexican Border Towns Fear U.S. Crackdown
Sugar refineries are found mainly near the sugarcane plantations in the piedmont areas of the states of Morelos, Sinaloa, Veracruz, and Tamaulipas. Handicraft production, chiefly weaving and artistic crafts, are widespread, particularly in the Indian regions in the central and southern states. (See ...
The testimony of a Mexican hitman turned government witness has revealed some astonishing details of life inside Mexico's criminal underworld. Most astonishing of all: claims that cartel assassins obtained guns from the U.S. Border Patrol.
Armored Car – 2 Built Before World War 1, armored vehicles had not yet come into fashion. Still early in their development, they could not yet prove their technical and tactical capabilities, but this did not prevent individuals and companies from building new vehicles. One of the companies ...
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The head of a Mexican business chambers' federation in Tamaulipas state,across the border from Texas, was killed Tuesday, hours after giving television interviews complaining about drug cartel extortion in the state, officials said. Julio Almanza was shot to death outside his offices in the city...
near the Soto La Marina River, whose results could be representative of the Mexican Arid America groups. MacNeish [34] estimated that agriculture in the mid-sixteenth century contributed 40% of the diet of the ancient towns of Tamaulipas. People in the region practiced agriculture from approximate...
“Strand beautifies poverty and simplifies the Mexican people into ‘the poor Mexicans, but isn’t this wonderful visually’,” he says. “But Alvarez Bravo was Mexican, his pictures are very complicated because he was able to accept ambiguities and contradictions, which Strand couldn’t… I thi...
All those who participated in the events of prior evenings generally attend the Misa de Gallo (Midnight Mass), which usually starts with a procession down the main aisle during which two godparents carry a statue of the Christ Child to a manger near the front altar (Samora, p. 227). ...
Referred to as the "back door" of the Confederacy, Texas and western Louisiana continued to providecottoncrops that were transferred overland to theMexicanborder towns of Matamoros and the port of Bagdad, and shipped to Europe by means of blockade runners in exchange for supplies. ...