Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

Then, after just three days in the mining camp, he accepted the nomination to run for alcalde, a Mexican official, which combined the duties of a mayor and justice of the peace, in a new government that was being formed.

" This uncertainty is primarily due to the dysfunction of the Mexican justice system as most cases have been inadequately investigated and documented.

* Oliva co-starred with Mil Máscaras in a Mexican wrestling movie in 1975 called El Poder Negro ( Black Power ), in which he played a super-strong dockworker who runs afoul of the local crime syndicate and helps Mil Máscaras to bring them to justice.

In nineteenth-century California, Stephen Johnson Field, later an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, once served as the only alcalde of Marysville, California, a town established in 1850 during the Gold Rush by immigrants, who temporarily used the Spanish and Mexican form of municipal government.

El Santo, along with Blue Demon and Mil Máscaras, is one of the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of " the greatest legends in Mexican sports " His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in comic books and movies.

In California, Field's legal practice boomed and he was elected alcalde, a form of mayor and justice of the peace under the old Mexican rule of law, of Marysville ( curiously, he was elected Alcade just three days after his arrival in Marysville ).

Cadena returned to the law faculty at St. Mary's from 1961 until 1965, when Texas governor John Connolly appointed him an associate justice on the 4th Court of Appeals, the first Mexican American to hold such a high ranking.

* Felipe Tena Ramírez, Former justice of the Mexican Supreme Court and writer

She is currently a member of MujerArte A. C., a Mexican feminist art collective led by artist and social justice activist Yan Maria Castro.

III -- That until a treaty of peace be made and signed between the United States of North American and the Republic of Mexico, no Californian or other Mexican citizen shall be bound to take the oath of allegiance.

* May 21 – Mexican Revolution: A peace treaty is signed between Madero ' rebels and government troops in Ciudad Juarez.

From his Columbia Department headquarters in Fort Vancouver he supervised trade and kept peace with the Indians, inaugurated salmon and timber trade with Mexican controlled California and Hawaii, and supplied Russian America with produce.

The Utes made a treaty of peace with the United States in 1849 shortly after the Mexican War.

Another example is The Mexican Spitfires song " Until " which includes lines reflective of the idea of Katoomba as a sanctuary from city life: " In distance I found strength / Katoomba gave me peace of mind.

The Mexican president during the Olympics, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, strained tenuous conditions in Mexico in an attempt to preserve the peace.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ( Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish ), officially Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty between the U. S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican – American War ( 1846 – 48 ).

Three weeks later, he signed the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave the region, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country.

The outgoing Mexican president, Luis Echeverría, indicated that Mexico would appeal to the Security Council to prevent Guatemala's designs on Belize from threatening peace in the area.

An uneasy peace between Spaniard and Yaqui endured for many years after the revolt with the Yaqui maintaining their tight-knit organization and most of their independence from Spanish and, after 1821, Mexican rule.

The last fully recognized General of the PLaza was General May, who signed the final peace treaties with the Mexican government through the 1930s and 40's.

Officially, after 1929, he served as minister of war, as he continued to suppress the rebellion of the Cristero War, but a few months later, after intervention of the United States ambassador Dwight Morrow, the Mexican government and the Cristeros signed a peace treaty.

Although Mexican traders ventured north, settlers stayed south of the 37th parallel north until the United States signed a peace treaty with the Ute Nation in 1850.

Plan of Iguala, also known as Plan of the Three Guarantees (" Plan Trigarante "), was a peace treaty proclaimed on February 24, 1821, in the final stage of Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

From 1840-1841 he sailed off the Mexican coast to hasten peace negotiations between the Republic of Texas and Mexico.

His four main themes in these lithographs are 1 ) Scenes of rural Mexican Life ; 2 ) the fight of different towns for liberation ; 3 ) the campaign in favor of disarmament and peace and 4 ) portraits of people.

In this context, the Mexican government convinced the U. S. government to promote the peace south of its border and quickly make available twelve new OU-2M Corsair with the 400 hp Wasp engine, nine Douglas O-2M, four Stearman C3B and six Waco Taper Wings.

On the east side of University Olympic Stadium, is a mural by Diego Rivera, called " The University, the Mexican family, peace and youth sports.

He was ordered by the Mexican government to make attempts at peace with the hostile Native American tribes of the North, the Comanches and the Lipans.

Honoring his works, the Mexican Government permits that his remains rest in peace in front of the Necropolis that was discovered by him at the maya site of Palenque, Chiapas.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

Steak House has such a run on beer to wash down that Mexican food `` Tex '' Burgess had to call the draft man twice in one day.

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 ".

He had no maps, but was guided by the men as he flew above Mexican mountains.

The Mexican Army included a number of horse mounted cavalry regiments as late as the mid 1990s and the Chilean Army had five such regiments in 1983 as mounted mountain troops ( see Jane's " Armed Forces of Latin America " by Adrian J. English ).

Because cacao would not grow in the dry central Mexican highlands and had to be imported, chocolate was an important luxury good throughout the Aztec empire, and cocoa beans were often used as currency.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

Following Huerta's overthrow Francisco Cardenas fled to Guatemala where he committed suicide in 1920 after the new Mexican government had requested his extradition to stand trial for the murder of Madero.

Mexican politicians had repeatedly warned that annexation would lead to war.

Mere days before Polk intended to make his request to Congress, he received word that Mexican forces had crossed the Rio Grande area and killed eleven American soldiers.

The United States also negotiated a secret arrangement with Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican general and dictator who had been overthrown in 1844.

He also increased the size of the regular army from 11, 000 to 15, 000 and introduced general usage of the improved guns that he had used successfully during the Mexican – American War.

Pilar Padilla, a Mexican actress and protagonist of the film, had to learn English in a crash course to play the part.

In the first instance, many had argued that slavery had previously been prohibited under Mexican law just as it was prohibited in Nebraska under the Missouri Compromise.

Just as the creation of New Mexico and Utah territories had not ruled on the validity of Mexican law on the acquired territory, the Nebraska bill was neither " affirming or repealing ... the Missouri act.

Along the route, Frémont and party came across a Mexican man and a boy who had survived an ambush by a band of Natives.