* Michael A. Olivas, Colored Men And Hombres Aquí: Hernandez V. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering, Arte Público Press, 2006.

* 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.

A novel published in 2006 by Laura Esquivel casts the Nahua, Malinalli, as one of history's pawns who becomes Malinche ( the novel's title ) a woman " trapped between the Mexican civilization and the invading Spaniards, and unveils a literary view of the legendary love affair ".

" Patterns and Prescriptions in Mexican Historiography ," Bulletin of Latin American Research ( 2006 ) 25 # 3 pp 340 – 366

* 1944 – Eva Norvind, Mexican actress ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer ( b. 1932 )

* 1963 – Jesus Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican convicted killer ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host ( b. 1933 )

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

* Mexican Drug War ( 2006 – present ) – an armed conflict fought between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico.

* June 25 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director ( d. 2006 )

* Mexican Drug War ( 2006 –)

The Centro Civico Mexicano acts as a community gathering point for the Wasatch Front's estimated 300, 000 Latinos, Mexican President Vicente Fox began his U. S. tour in the city in 2006.

* Beatriz Sheridan ( 1934 – 2006 ), Mexican actress and director

Only two other Mexican actresses have been nominated since then: Salma Hayek as Best Actress in 2002 for Frida and Adriana Barraza as Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for Babel.

On January 1, 2006 the EZLN began a massive tour-" The Other Campaign "-encompassing all 31 Mexican states in the build up to the year's presidential election, which the EZLN made clear they would not participate in directly.

Prior to the redevelopment of the Melbourne Cricket Ground between 2002 and 2006, spectators seated in the Members ' Stand ( reserved for members of the Melbourne Cricket Club ) would not participate in a Mexican wave, and would be booed by other spectators at the ground, before the wave would resume on the other side of the stand.

*( 2006 ) Vaselina ( Mexican version of Grease )-Licha

" Fighting for Caucasian Rights: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and the Transnational Struggle for Civil Rights in World War II Texas ," Journal of American History, 92 ( March 2006 ) in History Cooperative

Sea La Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 ( 2006 )

Her follow-up albums, Pau-Latina ( 2004 ) and Ananda ( 2006 ) consolidated Rubio internationally as one of the most successful Mexican super stars in the world.

In the modern world and in the aftermath of colonialism and the Industrial Revolution, land reform has occurred around the world, from the Mexican Revolution ( 1917 ; the revolution began in 1910 ) to Communist China to Bolivia ( 1952, 2006 ) to Zimbabwe and Namibia.

There is a cirlce of experts who believe that the start of the Mexican Drug War did not began in 2006 ( when Felipe Calderón sent troops to Michoacán to stop the increasing violence ), but in 2004 in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, when the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas fought off the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Negros.

Abdul Latif Sharif ( 1947 – June 1, 2006 ), was an Egyptian chemist and chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long murder spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in the early 1990s.

After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">

The last congressional elections were held on December 11, 2006.

Founded 2000 by former PLN member ; strong showings in 2002 and 2006 elections ( 30 % of Assembly in 2006 ).

Several smaller new parties that participated for the first time in the 2006 elections include Partido Unión Patriótica and Partido Alianza Democrática Nacionalista.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

This, however led to a stalemate in 2006 elections where both the left and the right each gained exactly 100 seats ; as many commenters point out, the earlier system would have given the right 3 – 4 seats majority.

On 15 May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a cleric and successful businessman educated in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, was declared the winner of elections for President of the Republic.

2006 — Parliamentary elections held.

A constitution was approved by voters and on 30 July 2006 the Congo held its first multi-party elections since independence in 1960.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

The position of Vice-President expired after the 2006 elections.

Since the July 2006 elections, the country is led by a semi-presidential, strongly-decentralized state.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

* 2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

Vice President Alfredo Palacio assumed the Presidency and vowed to complete the term of office and hold elections in 2006.

The first elections since the overthrow were held on February 8, 2006 to elect a new President.

However, after the elections in April 2006, the Socialist coalition under Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany unveiled a package of austerity measures which were designed to reduce the budget deficit to 3 % of GDP by 2008.

These coalitions continued into the 2001 and 2006 national elections.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )