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The Mexican industry of the modern type, on the whole, is in its infancy. Some of the old artisan industries continue to exist which not only provide for indigenous needs, but also work in the major centers by manufacturing many general purpose objects such as ropes of all kinds, mats, fans, baskets, pottery, saddles, hats, hand-woven fabrics, etc. According to simplyyellowpages, large industry with modern methods and machinery has begun to develop in the last 40 years, thanks to strong…

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The only language of Mexico of which some literary relics has come down to us, with few and negligible exceptions, after Maya, is Nahuatl which is commonly called Mexican or Aztec. It was more important than any other for richness, harmony, plasticity. Facilitated by such a precious instrument, the literature of the Mexicans – an imaginative and ardent people – in an environment which, for the sweetness of climate and the magnificence of sky and landscapes, was one of the…

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The variety and richness of natural resources are enormous, but there is still a long way to go that the country has to travel in order to fully exploit them. According to findjobdescriptions, agriculture constitutes the main basis of Mexican life and the greatest number of workers find employment in it. According to the 1910 census, 3,570,000 workers were employed in agriculture, compared with 96,000 employed in the mines, 634,000 employed in small and large industries, 54,000 employed in transport…

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Cortés, the Anonymous Conqueror, Pietro Martire and others, tell us about the wonders of the great cities they encountered: Mexico, Tlaxcala, Cholula, Tetzcoco, and their relationships are too concordant to be accused of exaggeration. The buildings constituting the palace of the king of Tetzcoco stretched for about 1 km. and for 800 m., they were surrounded by a 6 m high wall. and m. 1.80 thick; they had vast courtyards and a marble portico; the walls of the royal apartments…

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In the three centuries of Spanish domination, architecture followed the Spanish events in Mexico, except for some local characterizations. A typical 16th century complex. it consists of a church, with an adjoining convent, a square and a cemetery in front, surrounded by crenellated walls; there is a large cross in the center and four chapels for funeral services at the corners; a fifth ‘open chapel’ is leaning mostly against the facade of the church (the chapels, with an original mixture of Romanesque,…

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The first projections of the Cinematografo Lumière date back to 1896. In the years immediately following a lively pioneering activity developed by S. Toscano Barragán and E. Rosas. To the role of operators, they initially added that of street vending machines, making, in addition to numerous documentaries, the first short films with a subject, as well as precious filmed testimonies on the popular uprising of 1910 against the dictator P. Díaz. According to best-medical-schools, the Mexican revolution, whose theme also…

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Since its origins, at the beginning of the 20th century, Mexican cinema has followed an evolution similar to that of the country, offering an example of perfect correlation between the political situation, social achievements and cultural research. The pre-industrial phase According to listofusnewspapers, the period of silent cinema coincided with the last years of the dictatorship of P. Díaz (1876-1911) and with those of the outbreak and consolidation of the Revolution (1910-1930). In 1895 an Edison Kinetoscope was presented in…

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AGRICULTURE. – A significant share of the active population (about 15% in 2005) continues to be employed in the primary sector, which contributes less than 4% to GDP. The cultivable soils (about 14% of the surface) are irregularly distributed: mainly in the S, much less in the N, where, moreover, there is no lack of areas of profitable irrigated crops (cotton, tobacco). Irrigation covers 20% of arable land. The system of collective lands assigned to the peasants of an entire…

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Economy The Mexican economy, the fifteenth in the world in absolute terms, has undergone profound transformations in the last quarter of a century: it has set aside the dirigiste model in defense of industrialization and the internal market, to embrace the free international market. The key moment is linked to the signing of 43 free trade treaties, such as the N afta (which entered into force in 1994) and the Pacific Alliance (established in December 2011 but entered into force on 20…

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ECONOMIC POLICY – According to various economic and social indicators, Mexico falls within the developed countries (the average per capita income is $ 12,700, over 90% of the population is literate, life expectancy is around 76 years); but the fact that about 40% of the population is below the poverty line testifies to the serious imbalances in income distribution and social conditions, at the origin of internal problems, with territorial implications, as in the case of the State of Chiapas. Intense…

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According to the census of May 15, 1930, the population of Mexico is 16,530,771. with a density of 8 residents per sq. km, density higher than that of the major states of the two Americas, excluding the United States. And since in 1921 the population was 14,334,780 residents, In the period from 1921 to 1930 there was an absolute increase of about 2,070,000 individuals with an average annual percentage rate of 1.44 per thousand. In 1931 the Indians were 4,620,886…

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The victory of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), of Catholic and conservative inspiration, in the presidential and legislative elections of 2000 put an end to the political monopoly of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, (PRI), in power, under various denominations, since 1929 The latter, however, having kept a majority of the seats in the Senate, conditioned the political life of the country leaving the new administration, led by V. Fox, little room for maneuver. In an attempt to overcome the political impasse,…

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On the economic level, Salinas confirmed and developed the policy initiated by Mexico de la Madrid. The privatization program was accelerated and from basic sectors, such as mining, steel, transport and telecommunications, it extended to the banking system itself, nationalized by Lopez Portillo in September 1982, at the beginning of the financial crisis; from over 1150 in 1982 the enterprises belonging to the state have been reduced to less than 300 in 1993, while the sale of this assets also…

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