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Walking and Drinking Cerveza on the Road to Mexico’s Revolutions

By RICH GRANT     By a stroke of good fortune for the Mexican tourism office, both of Mexico’s revolutions began 100 years apart – in 1810 and 1910 (with the one in 2010 being just one year-long party). Routes that follow the various military campaigns have been laid out with one leaving from Guadalajara that goes to the three most historic towns

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Indio: Racism in a Bottle of Beer

By JULIA CASTILLO     Mexico’s Indio beer brand was originally called Cuauhtémoc, in honor of the last Aztec emperor-warrior, who died at the hands of Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortéz.   Back then, Cuauhtémoc’s image appeared on the label. Launched in the 1880s, its name was changed in 1905 because customers began to ask for it as “the one with the Indian image” (“la del Indio,” in Spanish). For practical

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