Category: History

History, Mexican Culture

Yoreme – Mexico’s North-Western Indigenous Communities

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Yoreme – Mexico’s North-Western Indigenous Communities

The Yoreme (also known as Mayo, Yaqui or Yoeme) are an indigenous group located mainly in the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa, and to a smaller extent, Durango and Chihuahua, as well as a community in Arizona, in the United States. These communities remain connected through their common ancestry and religion, which is based on a syncretism of Catholicism as assimilated from the Jesuit missions, and their beliefs; they have remained faithful to the Catholic religion to this day, and most of their celebrations are centred around the Christian calendar, such as Christmas, Lent and very prominently, Holy Week and Easter ... click on title for more

History, Mexican Culture

History Tidbit – A Revolution War Story

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History Tidbit – A Revolution War Story

The Anniversary of the onset of the Mexican Revolution War is celebrated every year on November 20; started in 1910, it was a complicated conflict, which involved not only the deposition of a "long-term president" (read: dictator), but several conspiracies that led to a cruel civil war, with the rise and fall of many political and military characters for more than a decade, even after the promulgation on the Constitution of 1917. One of the most prominent figures was Francisco "Pancho" Villa, born in 1878 in Río Grande, in the Mexican state of Durango ... click on title for more