The most famous source of fire opals is the state of Querétaro in Mexico ; these opals are commonly called Mexican fire opals.

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

For instance, the Northwest relies on local seafood, while in the South, Mexican flavors are extremely common.

Among the Hispanic population, 6. 8 % are Mexican, 0. 5 % Puerto Rican, 0. 4 % Salvadoran, 0. 3 % Peruvian, 0. 3 % Guatemalan.

The terms Chicano / Chicana ( also spelled Xicano / Xicana ) are used as reference to U. S. citizens of Mexican descent.

Mexican wolves in particular resemble some European wolves in stature, though their heads are usually broader, their necks thicker, their ears longer and their tails shorter.

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

* 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.

Cascarones, a North-Eastern Mexican tradition now shared by many in South Texas, are an emptied and dried chicken egg stuffed with confetti and sealed with a piece of tissue paper.

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

Mexican HMMWVs are similar to the American built models but are slightly longer and feature a standard selective shift automatic transmission connected to a Mercedes Benz diesel engine and an anti-spalling layer in the passenger cabin.

The interiors of the Mexican HMMWVs are different as well and have been redesigned to be more aesthetically pleasing and look much like the interiors of civilian SUVs.

After Lampart, the most famous Irishmen in Mexican history are probably " Los Patricios ".

For example, Mexican companies are given better access to U. S. markets due to their membership.

Current old institutions like the Oil Workers Union and the National Education Workers Union ( Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion ) are sordid demonstrations of how the use of government benefits are not being applied to improve the quality in the investigation of the use of oil or the basic education in Mexico as long as their leaders show publicly that they are living wealthly and in the case of the Teachers Union represented by Elba Esther Gordillo, they are not allowing government to input a way to evaluate and improve the knowledge of the Mexican teachers allowing to incompetent elements to use those places to escalate in the Union or to avoid the responsibility for they were hired.

Listed below are the 28 categories tabulated in the 2000 United States Census: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic ; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American ; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American ; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic or Latino.

Presently, Mexican presidents are limited to a single six-year term, and no one who has held the office even on a caretaker basis is allowed to hold the office again.

The foreign relations of Mexico are directed by the President of the United Mexican States and managed through the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

Mexican cuisine, a style of food that originated in Mexico, is known for its varied flavors, colourful decoration and variety of spices and ingredients, most of which are native to the country.

The staples of Mexican foods are typically corn and beans.

Squash and chili peppers are also prominent in Mexican cuisine.

In some cases, the third letter is the initial for " new " in that country's language, to distinguish it from an older currency that was revalued ; the code sometimes outlasts the usage of the term " new " itself ( for example, the code for the Mexican peso is MXN ).

In Mexico, Nachos are considered an American dish that was falsely inspired by the Mexican totopo, a type of toasted flatbread sometimes used for dipping in salsa.

While he presided in the Senate, emotions sometimes ran high, including during a debate on the Mexican border crisis in 1916.

Artists in the Mexican muralism movement, such as Diego Rivera and Jean Charlot sometimes used encaustic painting.

In other communities, interactions between Mexican traditions and American culture are resulting in celebrations in which Mexican traditions are being extended to make artistic or sometimes political statements.

Many working-class Mexican men in American cities wear their hair in styles like the Mongolian ( shaved except for a tuft of hair at the nape of the neck ) or the rat tail ( crewcut on top, tuft at the nape ), and African-Americans often wear their hair in complex patterns of braids and cornrows, fastened with barrettes and beads, and sometimes including shaved sections or bright colour.

By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films ; sometimes she also sang and danced.

The flower is sometimes referred to as an " Indian Blanket " or " Mexican Blanket.

In some regions of Mexico, a fruit salad ( watermelon, orange, jícama, cucumber and sometimes melon and papaya ) tossed in lime juice and hot sauce or chamoy and sprinkled with a salty chili powder is also known as pico de gallo ; it is a popular snack and usually sold outside schools, while the tomato-based condiment is better known as salsa picada, which means minced or chopped sauce, salsa mexicana or salsa bandera ( flag sauce ), because the colors – red ( tomato ), white ( onion ), and green ( chili ) – are the colors of the Mexican flag.

The Classic Chaac sometimes shows features of the Central Mexican ( Teotihuacan ) precursor of Tlaloc.

Though his pieces sometimes include landscapes or figures of Mexican history and mythology, these elements often appear as mere accessories to the story of a revolutionary hero or heroes ( several works depict the revolutionary " masses ", such as the mural at Chapultepec ).

The coin was sometimes called a Republican dollar, but eventually any peso of the old Spanish eight-real standard was generally referred to as a Mexican dollar, Mexico being the most prolific producer.

A maquiladora () or maquila () is the Mexican name for manufacturing operations in a free trade zone ( FTZ ), where factories import material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled, processed and / or manufactured products, sometimes back to the raw materials ' country of origin.

During certain periods, Mexican American children sometimes were forced to register at " Mexican schools ", where classroom conditions were poor, the school year was shorter, and the quality of education was substandard .< ref name =" autogenerated5 "> Ferg-Cadima, James A.

The acoustic guitar, string bass, and violin provide the basic instrumentation for Mexican music, with maracas, flute, horns, or sometimes accordion filling out the sound.

Although Morales has sometimes been described as the first indigenous president to be democratically elected in Latin America, this description in fact goes to Benito Juarez, a Mexican of the Zapotec ethnic group, was elected President of Mexico in 1858.

Oxkutzcab ( sometimes spelled as Oxcutzcab ) is a municipality, with a municipal seat of the same name in the Mexican state of Yucatán, southeast of Maní, Yucatán, located at

During the Mexican Revolution, Victoriano Huerta was sometimes found in cantinas here, proclaiming that the “ only foreigners welcome ( in Mexico ) were Hennessy and Martell .” The historic center and other villages were linked to each other and Mexico City proper by rail lines and trolleys.

* Cristian Castro, Mexican pop singer who sometimes records as " Cristian "

More recently, " Fresh Mex " or " Baja-style " Mexican food, which places an emphasis on fresh ingredients and sometimes seafood, inspired by Baja California fare, is highly popular.

Pascual Orozco Vazquez ( in contemporary documents, sometimes spelled " Oroszco ") ( 28 January 1882 – 30 August 1915 ) was a Mexican revolutionary leader who, after the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, rose up against Francisco I. Madero and recognized the coup d ' état led by Victoriano Huerta and the government it imposed.