Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

* Sanderson, Steven E. Agrarian populism and the Mexican state: the struggle for land in Sonora ( 1981 )

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

These include Ciudad Cuauhtémoc in Chihuahua and the Cuauhtémoc borough of the Mexican Federal District, as well as Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, in the state of Veracruz.

* 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

* 1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

In 1897, the 35 members of the so-called Enomoto Colonization Party settle in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Between 1940, till the 1980s worldwide spread of neo-liberalism through the Washington Consensus, the Mexican unions did not operate independently, but instead as part of a state institutional system, largely controlled by the ruling party.

* Palenque — in the Mexican state of Chiapas, known for its beautiful art and architecture

* La Venta – In the present day Mexican state of Tabasco.

* San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán – In the present day Mexican state of Veracruz.

Current labour law reflects the historic interrelation between the state and the Confederation of Mexican Workers, the labour confederation officially aligned with the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI ), which ruled Mexico under various names for more than seventy years.

* In Mexico, a municipality ( municipio ) is a subdivision of a state ( estado ) and a borough ( delegación ) is a subdivision of the Federal District ( see municipalities of Mexico and boroughs of the Mexican Federal District ).

Although the opposition campaign was hurt by the desire of the Mexican electorate for stability, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the intended PRI candidate, and the recent outbreak of hostilities in the state of Chiapas, Zedillo's share of the vote was the lowest official percentage for any PRI presidential candidate up to that time.

Mexican laws state that tequila can be produced only in the state of Jalisco and limited regions in the states of Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit and Tamaulipas.

The largest pyramid by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla.

The largest pyramid by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla.

The Republic of Texas was created from part of the Mexican state, Coahuila y Tejas, as a result of the Texas Revolution.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.

There is a place in Mexico called the " Zone of Silence " also known as the Vertice de Trino: the place where the borders of the Mexican states of Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila join between the twenty-sixth and the twenty-eighth parallel.

Their historical range roughly comprised a triangle between the Great Bear Lake in Canada's far northwest, south to the Mexican states of Durango and Nuevo León, and east along the western boundary of the Appalachian Mountains.

* Alacranes de Durango, a Mexican football club

* Durango class patrol vessel, operated by the Mexican Navy

Durango ( Tepehuan: Korian ), officially Victoria de Durango and also known as Ciudad de Durango, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Durango.

The city of Durango is located in the northern part of the country, and Midwestern part of the Mexican plateau.

Ciudad Lerdo ( Lerdo City ) is a small city in the northeastern portion of the Mexican state of Durango.

* The Golden Triangle of Mexico is composed of the three Mexican states of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua, where Mexican drug lords engage in a murderous rivalry for control of the drug importation routes north into the United States.

He was a deputy in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for Durango and a member of the Supreme Executive Power.

Guadalupe Victoria was born on 29 September 1786 in Tamazula in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain ( now the Mexican state of Durango ).

The following is a list of all Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones licensed over-the-air television stations broadcasting in the Mexican state of Durango.

On the U. S. side it occupies the valleys and basins of central and southern New Mexico, Texas west of the Pecos River and southeastern Arizona ; south of the border, it covers the northern half of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, most of Coahuila, north-east portion of Durango, extreme northern portion of Zacatecas and small western portions of Nuevo León.

His parents were both Mexican: his father was an “ indio ” from Durango and his mother was from a poor family in Juarez.

It preferred open montane forests made up of Durango, Mexican White, Loblolly and Montezuma Pines and oak, usually between 2100 and 2700 meters ASL.

Durango class patrol vessel | Durango class ships, offshore patrol vessels of Mexican Navy

* Durango class, offshore patrol vessel ( Mexican Navy )

The Mexican state of Durango is divided into 39 municipalities ( municipios ):

The Mexican state of Durango held an election on Sunday, July 4, 2004.

The shared Spanish language, Catholic faith, close contact with their political homeland ( Mexico ) to the south, a history of labor segregation, ethnic exclusion and racial discrimination encourage a united Chicano or Mexican folkloric tradition in the United States.

Sofi ’ s next youngest daughter ’ s barhopping lifestyle leads to her rape, but not by a man, by la Malogra, a New Mexican folkloric monster said to haunt empty highways.

Pepe is the son of Mexican icon Antonio Aguilar and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre.