The Church of our Lady of Guadalupe possesses an extraordinarily exuberant Baroque facade designed by José de Alcibar, a renowned architect of the period considered to be one of the most famous artists in Mexico in the 1770s.

The department possesses various rivers that flow into the Chixoy River, also known as the Río Negro, which flows into the system of rivers forming the drainage basin of the Usumacinta River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.

Presidential systems are a notable feature of constitutions in the Americas, including those of the Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela ; this is generally attributed to the strong influence of the United States in the region, and as the United States Constitution served as an inspiration and model for the Latin American wars of independence of the early 19th century.

In Southeast Asia, as in Mexico, understandings and interpretations of indigenous beliefs of the veneration of spirits and deities remain strong and for many who are practicing Christians there is still the veneration of the traditional spirits ( anito ) as in northern Philippines.

* 1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

He based his re-election campaign around the slogan, " He kept us out of war ", but U. S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare despite repeated strong warnings and tried to enlist Mexico as an ally.

** A strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco.

Increased westerly flow off the Rockies force the formation of a dry line when the flow aloft is strong, while the Gulf of Mexico fuels abundant low-level moisture in the southerly flow to its east.

The Academy Award nominations meant strong performances continued across the board ; the following weekend, American Beauty grossed $ 10. 9 million in 27 countries, with strong debuts in Brazil, Mexico and South Korea.

In many countries with a strong Christian tradition such as Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, the countries of the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, the day is observed as a public or federal holiday.

" Bands in the genre have experienced a more enthusiastic reception elsewhere with Mägo de Oz notably experiencing strong chart success in their native Spain, Mexico and South America.

They have experienced strong chart success in their native Spain as well as in South America and Mexico.

In Mexico, mezcal is generally consumed straight and has a strong smoky flavor.

Alexander von Humboldt mentions it in his Political Treatise on the Kingdom of New Spain ( 1803 ), noting that a very strong version of mezcal was being manufactured clandestinely in the districts of Valladolid ( Morelia ), Mexico State, Durango and Nuevo León.

Arvin's large Hispanic ( mostly Mexican ) cultural identity is well expressed in store front signs often in Spanish, shops and stores like carnicerias or meat markets, and the residents expressed a strong emotional pull to Mexico, some to Central and South America, and descendants of Basques arrived from Spain as shepherds and vineyard workers also made Arvin their home.

Portales remained partially insulated from the national economic downturn of 2008-2010 due in part to a balanced economy based on agri-business and staple food product manufacturing ( primarily peanut butter and milk ), higher education, and a relatively strong local retail services market fueled by a growing population of Eastern New Mexico University students and Cannon Air Force Base employees.

He justified his stay in office by claiming that Mexico was not yet ready to govern itself ; only he knew what was best for his country and he enforced his belief with a strong hand.

His vision for Mexico was based on three principles: the ejidos ( common lands ) restored through a strong agrarian program to combat the domination of the large haciendas, a socialist education system to oppose the " fanaticism " of the Church and workers ' cooperatives to check the excesses of industrial capitalism.

However, by the 1920s anti-Chinese sentiment had become strong in Sonora state, with many Chinese leaving for Mexico City or the United States.

Recent arrivals in the pageant include China ( 2002 ), Albania ( 2002 ), Vietnam ( 2004 ), Georgia ( 2004 ), Ethiopia ( 2004 ), Latvia ( 2005 ), Kazakhstan ( 2006 ), Tanzania ( 2007 ), and Kosovo ( 2008 ); there have also been efforts to revive strong national pageants in South Africa, Canada, Spain, Japan ; Latin America ( especially Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil ) among other regions.

On March 7, 2004, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, seen as a strong possibility for the position himself, endorsed Gephardt for the Vice Presidency.

Many Mennonites migrated to Canada the United States, and a great majority took to Latin America-especially south Brazil, Mexico and Paraguay ; most of them live as rural settlers and have added some Spanish and Portuguese words to their own language due to the strong influence of the cultures surrounding them in those regions.

The average age of the comic reader in Mexico was higher than in the United States, about 18 instead of 13, so some argue the content of comics had a very strong influence on Mexican society.

The Grito also emphasized loyalty to the Catholic religion, a sentiment with which both Creoles and Peninsulares ( native Spaniards ) could sympathize ; however, the strong anti-Spanish cry of “ Death to the Gachupines ” ( Gachupines was a nickname given to Peninsulares ) probably had caused horror among Mexico ’ s elite.

: On the east coast of what would come to be called the United States, some tribes would grow maize ( corn ), beans, and squash intermingled together, a system which had originated in Mexico.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

The reincorporation of Cuba as an active member had arisen regularly as a topic within the inter-American system ( e. g., it was intimated by the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in 1998 ) but most observers did not see it as a serious possibility while the Socialist government remained in power.

However, the top of the system is sharply defined, being placed at an iridium-rich layer found worldwide that is believed to be associated with the Chicxulub impact crater in Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico.

The other castes were similarly further sub-classified by these 19th-century and early-20th-century ethnographers based on numerous criteria ranging from profession, endogamy or exogamy or polygamy, and a host of other factors in a manner similar to castas in Spanish colonies such as Mexico, and caste system studies in British colonies such as India.

Depiction of casta system in New Spain | Mexico, 18th century

Before the 1990s, unions in Mexico had been historically part of a state institutional system.

The Politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system, whereby the president of Mexico is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The Constitution Party has stated that this system would give U. S. companies a better chance at competing with countries, like Mexico and China, which have lower labor costs.

* July 1 – The congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America and a Republican system of government is established.

* July 1 – The congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America, and a Republican system of government is established.

It displaced the federal Constitution of 1824 with the 1835 Constitution of Mexico, thereby ending the federal system and establishing a provisional centralized government in its place.

On 1 July 1823, the congress of Central America declared absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America and a Republican system of government was established.

Among the cultural traits that the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan shared with many other cultures of central Mexico are the agricultural basis of maize cultivation, the basic social organization dividing society into classes of noble pipiltin and macehualli commoners, the complex religious beliefs and practices including most of the pantheon ( e. g. gods such as Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl ), the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days.

MATHLAB (" mathematical laboratory ") should not be confused with MATLAB (" matrix laboratory ") which is a system for numerical computation built 15 years later at the University of New Mexico, accidentally named rather similarly.

The upper secondary vocational education system in Mexico includes over a dozen subsystems ( administrative units within the Upper Secondary Education Undersecretariat of the Ministry of Public Education, responsible for vocational programmes ) which differ from each other to varying degrees in content, administration, and target group.

" Disestablishment — a polite term for robbery — by Mexico ( rather than by native Californians misrepresenting the Mexican government ) in 1834, was the death blow of the mission system.

Kings Bay is fed by a springs system ; it is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by the Crystal River.

By the end of the 1996 model year, exterior chrome or matt moldings were dropped altogether and for model year 1997 Volkswagen de Mexico ( VWdM ) dropped the Sedan's flow-through ventilation system with all its fittings, notably the exterior crescent-shaped vents behind the rear side windows.

Later that year, a district court judge, Jack Love, persuaded Michael Goss, a computer salesperson, to develop a system to monitor five offenders in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The third Constitution of Mexico confirmed the federal system of government that is currently in force.

In Mexico the Ejido system provided poor farmers with collective use rights to agricultural land.