Mexico’s (Almost) Forgotten Holiday
Unlike the constitutions that had preceded it, the 1917 charter encompassed a wide range of cutting-edge social reforms
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The Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 7, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (two days late this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend (hard to do in the times of covid-19) or just a opportunity
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Today, Monday, Feb. 1, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (four days early this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend (hard to do in the times of covid-19) or just a
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 4, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (one day early this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend or just a opportunity to get an early start on that spring cleaning you
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 3, is an official Mexico holiday, commemorating the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend or just a opportunity to get an early start on that spring cleaning you have been putting off, it is
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