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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 ).
The difference in styles is due to the independent evolution of the sport in Mexico beginning in the 1930s and the fact that wrestlers in the cruiserweight division ( peso semicompleto ) are often the most popular wrestlers in Mexican lucha libre.
In the latter half of the 19th century some local coins in the region were made in the likeness of the Mexican peso.
His tenure suffered, however, from local economic fallout due to the Mexican peso crisis of 1995, and became tainted with repeated accusations of corruption.
It was a known fact that the peso was overvalued, but the extent of the Mexican economy's vulnerability was either not well known or downplayed by both the Salinas de Gortari administration and the media.
Although the economy was already in a mild recession at this point, conditions worsened substantially after the devaluation of the Mexican peso during December 1994.
Greater economic stability since the last major economic crisis in Mexico ( the 1995 peso crisis ) was achieved in great part through economic reforms begun under Ernesto Zedillo, who was the last successive PRI-nominated president to serve since the Mexican Revolution, and whose tenure commenced just as the peso crisis was coming to a head.
The devaluation of the Mexican peso in the 1980s put a damper on cross-border shopping ; local tourism was down because of the recession.
The Mexican peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded in the Americas, and by far the most traded currency in Latin America.
Throughout most of the 20th century, the Mexican peso remained one of the more stable currencies in Latin America, since the economy did not experience periods of hyperinflation common to other countries in the region.
Thanks to the stability of the Mexican economy and the growth in foreign investment, the Mexican peso is now among the 15 more traded currency units in recent years.
The Spanish dollar or Mexican peso was widely used in the early United States.
The Mexican peso also served as the model for the Straits dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan.
Emperor Maximilian, ruler of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 – 1867, minted the first coins with the legend " peso " on them.
In 1910, a new peso coin was issued, the famous Caballito, considered one of the most beautiful of Mexican coins.
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.
In 1869 – 1870, not long after adopting the metric system, Mexican mints began producing the peso of " Un Peso " denomination, popularly known as " balanza " ( scales ), with the same weight and fineness, but with a uniform diameter of 37 mm ( making it slightly thicker than the old peso, which was slightly irregular, with a diameter of 38 – 40 mm ).
Mexico minted the last eight-real peso in 1897, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, these Mexican dollar coins were worth only 50 cents in relation to the U. S. dollar.
Until 1886, the peso circulated alongside Mexican coins, some of which were still denominated in reales and escudos ( worth two pesos ).
* Mexican peso
* Mexican peso

Mexican and was
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.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.
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.
There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.
Others carried extra clips for the Browning Automatic Rifle, which was in the hands of a little Mexican named Martinez.
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.
About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.
Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.
Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.
`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.
In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio " El Indio " Fernández.
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.
Johnston was to provide the defense of the Texas border against Mexican invasion, and in 1839 conducted a campaign against Indians in northern Texas.
He was flying a postal route for the Mexican company Transportes Aeras Transcontinentales, ferrying mail from San Luis Potosí to Toreon and then on to Guadalajara.
He had no maps, but was guided by the men as he flew above Mexican mountains.
Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.
Reies Tijerina was a vocal claimant to the rights of Hispanics and Mexican Americans, and he remains a major figure of the early Chicano Movement.
This group was also younger, of more radical persuasion, and less-connected to a Mexican cultural heritage.
The Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Manuel Gamio reported in 1930 that the term " chicamo " ( with an " m ") was used as a derogatory term used by Hispanic Texans for recently arrived Mexican immigrants displaced during the Mexican revolution in the beginning of the early 20th century.
Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

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