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Allan on June 17th, 2024

Mexico held an election on June 2nd. It was a massive election, with 20,000 official posts up for grabs, from the presidency and Congress down to local offices. There were 70,000 candidates competing for those 20,000 posts. In some parts of Mexico, violence accompanied the election, mostly targeting those competing for local offices. For the […]

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It’s now been 500 years since Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived to Veracruz, Mexico.  On April 21st, 2019, Cortes and his ships arrived to the island of San Juan de Ulua, right off Veracruz.  The next day, April 22nd, 2019, the Spaniards went ashore.  Thus began their conquest of the Aztec Empire, which fell on […]

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Allan on June 16th, 2017

On June 4th, 2017, four Mexican states held elections.  Those states were Veracruz, Nayarit, Coahuila and the State of Mexico (Edomex). For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published June 12th, 2017, on Mexidata.info.

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