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Mexico Recent History

Mexico Recent History

The hegemony of the PRI The successors of Cárdenas were able to continue the work of industrialization of the country while minimizing, thanks to the political and social control achieved through the dominant party, the negative effects of rapid economic growth. The party, reorganized and renamed in 1946 Partido revolucionario institucional (PRI), consolidated its monopoly on the political life of the country, while the presidency of the Republic alternated between its right and left representatives. In the 1950s and 1960s…

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Cities and Places in Mexico

Cities and Places in Mexico

Yucatan Yucatán is a peninsula in Central America that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea and which was the center of the indigenous Mayan culture from the 4th to 10th centuries, which has left countless archaeological sites. The best known are Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Tulúm and Edzná. Chichen Itza was the political and religious center of the New Maya Empire. It is located on the “Holy Cenote”, a karst spring in which people were sacrificed in the…

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