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On 17 May Querétaro fell and Maximilian was taken prisoner and the 15,000 troops of General Mariano Escobedo were redirected to assist in the siege of the capital. [5] On 23 May, Porfirio Díaz tightened the ring around the city and advanced to Tacubaya and was confronted by the French guerrillas at Belén on 30 May [9]: 243, 269 who held them back until 9 June when they were called to ...
Investigators' first hypothesis was that the gases produced by the leak and the electricity sparks caused by the friction of people's synthetic clothes may have caused the explosion. [26] The explosion was particularly deadly because the free gasoline attracted large numbers of people to the breach zone. [ 4 ]
Ten people were killed and another ten wounded in an off-road vehicle rally in the San Vicente area of the city by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel: Beer House Cantina bar Arson July 22, 2023 San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora 13 Customer expelled from bar sets fire to the place and kills 13 people [176] [177 ...
Planning to stay with her aunt in Atlanta and find work cleaning houses, she left Guatemala 7 May 2018, accompanied by a paid guide, and on 22 May arrived in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where she was taken to a safe house with other Guatemalans planning to cross the border, and phoned home.
Pancho Villa attacks General Obregón's Constitutionalist garrison at Nogales, Sonora. Villa initiated a siege but over time was defeated due to the lack of artillery and insufficient supplies. During the siege the United States 12th Infantry garrison of Nogales, Arizona, was attacked by Villistas and in turn skirmished for a half hour. One ...
The Normal station of the Mexico City Metro was the scene of The Halconazo, the name given to the Corpus Thursday Massacre in 1971 in Mexico City.. El Halconazo (Spanish: The Falcon Strike) was a massacre of student demonstrators by members of the Halcones, a state-sponsored paramilitary group, on 10 June 1971 in Mexico City.
The Mexican Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled government under the presidencies of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría, and José López Portillo, which were backed by the U.S. government, and left-wing student and guerrilla groups.
The magazine enjoyed another sales boost during coverage of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake's aftermath, which increased the magazine's print run to 2-2,5 million copies per week. It was also printed in countries such as the United States, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Japan.