He also made some recordings for Columbia Records which were issued on 78-rpm discs and on LP ( Columbia 4-disc 78-rpm set M 414, reissued 1949 on Columbia 10-inch LP, Columbia ML 2080 and Mexican Columbia DCL 98, reissued on Columbia 12-inch LP, LL 1015 ; CBS Masterworks 3-LP set 32 31 0001 ( mono )/ 32 31 002 ( stereo ); CBC Masterworks LP 32 11 0064 ; Columbia LP M32685 ; Odyssey LP Y 31534 ).

Otto, Leila, a secret government agent, and rival Mexican repo men, the Rodriguez Brothers ( Del Zamora and Eddie Velez ), all compete with each other to find and deliver the Malibu, which is being driven around Los Angeles by a scientist ( Fox Harris ), who originally stole the aliens from Los Alamos National Laboratory and drove to California, slowly losing his sanity on the way due to the radiation emitted by the aliens.

In the 1953 Warner Brothers cartoon Bully For Bugs, Bugs Bunny misses his " left toin at Albuquerque " and pops up in a Mexican bull ring, where he asks for directions to "... the shortest route to the Coachella Valley and the big carrot festival therein?

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

The stamps were deemed offensive by a number of African American community groups and politicians in the United States, including Jesse Jackson, prompting the Mexican government to assert that Memín had done a lot to oppose racism and that the stereotypical Warner Brothers ' character Speedy Gonzales was never interpreted as offensive in Mexico.

Mexican rock music, often referred to in Mexico as rock nacional (" national rock "), originated in the 1950s with covers of standards by Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers, among others, bands such as Los Rebeldes del Rock, Los Locos del Ritmo, Los Crazy Boys, Los Nómadas, and Javier Bátiz soon arose with original compositions, often in English.

* The Sombrero Brothers: Two untalented performers in Mexican Attire whose act, " flying sombrero brothers " is flying on a plane.

The Texas Syndicate, more than La Eme or Nuestra Familia, has been associated or allied with Mexican immigrant prisoners, such as the " Border Brothers ", while Eme and Familia tend to be composed of and associate with US-born or raised Hispanics.

The phrase is regularly used by stereotyped Mexicans in ( especially Wild West ) fiction, for example the adventures of Zagor, Tex Willer or Lucky Luke and select Warner Brothers cartoons, such as the bull Daffy Duck encounters in the 1947 cartoon Mexican Joyride.

Some Latinos of Mexican origin celebrate Dia de los Muertos ( Day of the Dead ) on or around All Saints Day ( November 1 ), this being a mix of a native Mesoamerican celebration and an imported European holiday.

Article 74 of the Mexican labor law ( Ley Federal del Trabajo ) provides that the first Monday of February ( regardless the date ) will be an official holiday in Mexico.

Article 74 of the Mexican labor law ( Ley Federal del Trabajo ) provides that the third Monday of March ( regardless the date ) will be an official holiday in Mexico.

Article 74 of the Mexican labor law ( Ley Federal del Trabajo ) provides that the third Monday of November ( regardless the date ) will be an official holiday in Mexico.

Day of the Dead () is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.

Government offices usually have at least a small altar, as this holiday is seen as important to the Mexican heritage.

This date has become a national holiday in Mexico, which has continued to grow in acceptance within Mexican culture.

Although today it is recognised in some countries as a day of Mexican heritage celebration, it is not a federal holiday in Mexico.

He went on to design the highly acclaimed Grim Fandango, a noir adventure game set in the Aztec afterlife featuring characters similar to the papier-mâché skeleton decorations from the Mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos.

The festival is held during Holy Week holiday to attract Mexican and international visitors to the city.

Every year there is a holiday called " Desfile del 18 de marzo " ( March 18 Parade ) which commemorates Mexican oil expropriation and has two beautiful parades, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Although atole is one of the traditional drinks of the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, it is very common during breakfast and dinnertime at any time of year.

" Every anniversary, the monument is decorated with flowers and on the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, candles and offerings are brought on behalf of the victims.

In honor of those indigenous ancestors who fought for the ideal of an independent indigenous state of Sonora, some contemporary Opata and other Sonoran Indian traditionalists do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo — the national Mexican holiday that celebrates the defeat of French troops and their indigenous allies at the Battle of Puebla in 1865.

Since November 20 is the Mexican Revolution day, an obligatory public holiday in México, the unions refused, and so Reforma had to be sold on the streets by journalists and celebrities, as a protest against what they considered " a boycott ".

Jose Feliciano's song " Feliz Navidad " is used in the commercials, and Feliciano speaks of celebrating the holiday " the Mexican way " with Nachos Navidad.

The French army suffered an initial defeat in the Battle of Puebla on 5 May 1862 ( commemorated with the Cinco de Mayo holiday ) against the Mexican forces commanded by General Ignacio Zaragoza.

This holiday, on April 22, commemorated the day the Armistice was forced on the United States by the Confederacy, Britain, and France in the Second Mexican War in 1882.

Although it is a Mexican folk art, papel picado is used as a holiday decoration in many countries.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

The war had begun with a Mexican slaughter of American soldiers in territory disputed by Mexico and the US ; Polk insisted that Mexican soldiers had " invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil ".

The rediscovery of the Nepōhualtzintzin was due to the Mexican engineer David Esparza Hidalgo, who in his wanderings throughout Mexico found diverse engravings and paintings of this instrument and reconstructed several of them made in gold, jade, encrustations of shell, etc.

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* 2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician, President of Mexico ( b. 1934 )

* Alnus jorullensis — Mexican alder, Mexico, Guatemala ( one of the few evergreen species )

* 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

* 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican politician, 45th President of Mexico ( d. 1955 )

On 3 August 2007, Mexican archaeologists announced discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of Ahuizotl beneath a sculpture of Tlaltecuhtli near the Zócalo in Mexico City.

In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.

( see: Boroughs of Mexico and Boroughs of the Mexican Federal District )

The Mexican and French oceanographic expedition SURPACLIP ( UNAM Mexico and UNC Nouméa ) made extensive studies in 1997 on and around the island.

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.

* C. l. cagottis: Mexican coyote – states of Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi, Puebla, and Veracruz in Mexico

The modern Mexican municipality of Cuitláhuac, Veracruz and the Mexico City Metro station Metro Cuitláhuac are named in honor of Cuitláhuac.

In Mexico, effective and affordable chemical and non-chemical strategies against malaria have been so successful that the Mexican DDT manufacturing plant ceased production due to lack of demand.

During his reign, he also set about creating the Second Mexican Empire ( headed by his choice of Maximilian I of Mexico, a member of the House of Habsburg ), to regain France's hold in the Americas and to achieve greatness for the ' Latin ' race.

In Mexico, the First Mexican Empire was the first of two empires created.

In 1863, the invading French, under Napoleon III ( see above ), in alliance with Mexican conservatives and nobility, helped create the Second Mexican Empire, and invited Archduke Maximilian, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, younger brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I, to become emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.