Quotes About Mexico

He arranged a marriage for Doña Marina to Juan Jaramillo, one of his captains, and then returned for what he thought would be a brief visit to Spain. But when his visit was completed in 1547 and he was on his way to embark for Mexico at the Spanish port of Seville, his great strength began to fail. Within a few days, he died

In their quest for gold, and for the ruler who controlled its steady flow into the Aztec treasuries, the conquistadors had indeed marched far - some 275 miles over mountainous country to the great Valley of Mexico.

The archaeological record of the Aztecs' ancestors goes back to nomadic hunters who some 8,000 years ago stalked the mammoth and other prehistoric creatures that roamed through the shallow lakes of Central America. Much later, about 2000 B.C., these nomads began to settle down and establish villages in what is now Mexico.

How often are drugs brought across the border from Mexico? Getting drugs from Mexico into the United States is big business, and Mexican cartels spare little expense or violence to accomplish their mission. One estimate puts the annual value of drugs trafficked into the United States from Mexico at $39 billion.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

During the Fox administration, Mexico turned into a more violent country than Colombia; Calderon's task is to recover lost ground and clean it up.

back to the USA where there is honor and integrity and Lord knows what else, I thought. I got confused. President Bush and Clarence Thomas and antiabortion and AIDS and Duke and crack and homelessness. And everywhere, MTV, cartoons ads, magazines--just war and sexism and violence. In Mexico, at least a can of cement falls off a scaffold on your head, no Uzis or anything personal.

La soledad es un concepto anglosajón. En Ciudad de México, si eres el único pasajero en un autobús y alguien sube, no solo se sentará a tu lado sino que se recostará en ti. (Del cuento Triste idiota)

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

One could raise a similar set of objections regarding America's alleged theft of Mexican land. Texas used to be part of Mexico but broke off because of tyrannical laws imposed by a Mexican dictator. Texas then opted to join the United States. The Mexican War arose over a border dispute between Texas and Mexico. Mexico lost the war, and ceded the disputed land in a treaty in which the United States paid money and wrote off Mexican debts.

the resources of the federal government to make a quality college education affordable for every American citizen who wants one. Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to . . . make war at pleasure. —Lincoln, justifying his stand against President James K. Polk's invasion of Mexico February 15, 1848

We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay. And the reason they're going to pay and the way they're going to pay, Bob, is this. We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year. The wall is going to cost $10 billion a year. That's what it's going to cost. It's going to be a powerful wall. It's going to cost $10 billion.

We are going to build a wall. You're going to pay for the wall.

Quetzalcóatl-santo Tomás sería una de las más poderosas palancas de que dispondrían los criollos para inclinar a Nueva España hacia el separatismo, prosiguiendo con el glorioso pasado del Anáhuac.

En el Valle de México la búsqueda arqueológica ha sido fructífera; prácticamente no se puede abrir una zanja sin encontrar restos del período azteca o de épocas anteriores

México Nuevo, México Unido. Ante criminalidad y corrupción: tolerancia cero. Recuerdo por

Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.

If only Mexico paid their workers a decent wage.

They couldn't sweat him, no matter what they did. Hey, they were gringos—no way were they going to do the kind of things to him the Mexican cops and the Federales would have done. Every Mexican gangster knows this—Los Yunaites is the land of human rights

They still spoke a thousand languages—Spanish, too, to be sure, but also a thicket of songs and grammars. Mexico—the sound of wind in the ruins. Mexico—the waves rushing the shore. Mexico—the sand dunes, the snowfields, the steam of sleeping Popocatépetl

La descripción de las organizaciones de traficantes en México en ese momento mostró que la estructura del campo del tráfico de drogas era predominantemente oligopólica, no estaba "cartelizada" y no había ningún grupo o coalición que hubiese logrado la hegemonía en el mismo.

El tráfico de drogas en México nació subordinado a la política desde los tiempos de la Revolución, se reforzó en el Estado posrevolucionario dominado por el partido de Estado (PNR-PRM-PRI) y así continuó durante siete décadas.

la mexicana en la actualidad, no cuenta con instituciones adecuadas y sólidas para responder con rapidez y éxito al reto de las organizaciones criminales: las tiene que crear. Hereda instituciones que fueron diseñadas para funcionar con controles verticales, sin transparencia ni rendición de cuentas, con prácticas de corrupción muy arraigadas, y una sociedad civil desorganizada.