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Reed: Insurgent Mexico (Spanish: Reed, México insurgente) is a 1973 Mexican drama film directed by Paul Leduc. [1] It was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee. [ 2 ]
El Periquillo Sarniento can be read as a nation-building novel, written at a critical moment in the transition of Mexico (and Latin America) from colony to independence. Jean Franco has characterized the novel as "a ferocious indictment of Spanish administration in Mexico: ignorance, superstition and corruption are seen to be its most notable ...
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency is a non-fiction book of the Mexican drug war written by Ioan Grillo. [1] In El Narco, Grillo takes a close look at the Mexican drug trade, starting with the term "El Narco", which has come to represent the vast, faceless criminal network of drug traffickers who cast a murderous shadow over Mexico. [2]
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At the end of the Mexican War of Independence, the Army of the Three Guarantees (Spanish: Ejército Trigarante or Ejército de las Tres Garantías) was the name given to the army after the unification of the Spanish troops led by Agustín de Iturbide and the Mexican insurgent troops of Vicente Guerrero, consolidating Mexico's independence from Spain.
José Joaquín Eugenio Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez (November 15, 1776 [1] – June 21, 1827) was a Mexican writer and political journalist.He is best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), translated into English as The Mangy Parrot, reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America.
The Mexican Insurgent Army (Spanish: Ejército Insurgente Mexicano, EIM) was a short-lived far-left Guerrilla group, and existed between 1968 and 1969, in the Lacandon Jungle region of Chiapas. [ 3 ] by left-wing newspaper editor Mario Menéndez and Ignacio González Ramírez .
Residential drug treatment co-opted the language of Alcoholics Anonymous, using the Big Book not as a spiritual guide but as a mandatory text — contradicting AA’s voluntary essence. AA’s meetings, with their folding chairs and donated coffee, were intended as a judgment-free space for addicts to talk about their problems.