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The 1917 Bath Riots occurred in January 1917 at the Santa Fe Street Bridge between El Paso, Texas, United States, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.The riots are known to have been started by Carmelita Torres [1] and lasted from January 28 to January 30 and were sparked by new immigration policies at the El Paso–Juárez Immigration and Naturalization Service office, requiring Mexicans ...
Carmelita Torres was a "red-haired Mexican woman" known for starting the 1917 Bath riots on the Mexico–United States border between Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas. [1] At the time of the riots, she was 17 years old and working as a maid in the United States. [2] [3] [4]
An orthographic projection map detailing the present-day location and territorial extent of Mexico in North America.. This is a list of conflicts in Mexico arranged chronologically starting from the Pre-Columbian era (Lithic, Archaic, Formative, Classic, and Post-Classic periods/stages of North America; c. 18000 BCE – c. 1521 CE) up to the colonial and postcolonial periods (c. 1521 CE ...
2011 – Riots in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 17 people killed in a prison riot. [297] 2011 – Riots in Papua, Indonesia, 18 killed in rioting between rival clans. [298] [299] 2011 – Riots in Qalad District, Zabul province, Afghanistan, at least 4 killed. [300] 2011 – Riots in Pimpri-Chinchwad, India, 3 killed. [301]
List of strikes in Mexico; 0–9. 1917 Bath riots; C. Cananea strike; M. Matamoros strike; O. 2006 Oaxaca protests; R. Real del Monte 1766 strike; Río Blanco strike
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
On 10 February 2016, a prison riot broke out at the Topo Chico prison near Monterrey, in northern Mexico. [5] 49 inmates were killed during the riot and ensuing fire.The riot was the most deadly in Mexican penal history, surpassing the death toll of the 2012 Apodaca prison riot. [6]
With the U.S. victory in the Mexican–American War, the Gadsden Purchase, and the annexation of the Republic of Texas, much of the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming, were ceded to the United States. [10] This land was roughly half of Mexico's pre-war territory.