Each year, Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick’s Brigade (San Patricios)

Mar 152010
 
 15/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 06:01 on 15/03/2010 8 Responses »
Each year, Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick's Brigade (San Patricios)

From behind the bullet-scarred walls of an ancient fortress, the wail of bagpipes and a thundering bass drum echoed through a plaza in the center of Mexico City. Passers-by stopped in their tracks. Children craned for a look as a platoon of Mexican bagpipers marched through the gates in tribute to a strange and divisive chapter of Irish-American history. The bagpipers play each month in honor of the St. Patrick Battalion, a group of 600 Irish-American soldiers who switched sides to fight for Mexico in the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War. Mexico lost half its territory to the United States as a ….Read More

Mexico National Cemetary – Least we forget

May 232009
 
 23/05/2009  Posted by PMC at 22:20 on 23/05/2009 Comments Off
Mexico National Cemetary - Least we forget

Throughout the War with Mexico it was the practice of the U.S. Army, following major military engagements, to burythe dead in mass graves on or near the battlefield where they fell. Generally, this task was performed as quickly as possible for one very practical reason: the warm climate in which most of the war was fought hastened decomposition. The bodies of soldiers who died later of their wounds, or from some other cause, were also buried promptly, usually near whichever building was serving as an army hospital at the time. In towns garrisoned by American troops for long periods, burials ….Read More

Mexican Farmers march on Mexico City to protest NAFTA

Jan 312008
 
 31/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:43 on 31/01/2008 Comments Off
Mexican Farmers march on Mexico City to protest NAFTA

Thousands of Mexican farmers, some riding tractors and herding cows, flooded the capital Thursday to demand government protection against cheap U.S. imports.Trade barriers under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, were lifted in January, opening Mexico for the first time to tariff-free U.S. exports of traditional food like corn and beans. Mexican farmers complain the government of President Felipe Calderón is not doing enough to protect them against highly subsidized U.S. goods. Protesters are demanding Mexico renegotiate the treaty with the United States to maintain protections for corn and beans. Long lines of slow-moving tractors choked highways from ….Read More

Found atop Mexico City Cathedral – Time capsule from 1791

Jan 172008
 
 17/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:06 on 17/01/2008 Comments Off
Found atop Mexico City Cathedral - Time capsule from 1791

A time capsule was found atop a bell tower at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral, where it was placed in 1791 to protect the building from harm, researchers said Tuesday. The lead box – filled with religious artifacts, coins and parchments – was hidden in a hollow stone ball to mark the moment on May 14, 1791, when the building’s topmost stone was laid, 218 years after construction had begun. Workers restoring the church found the box in October, inside the stone ball base of a cross that sits atop the 200-foot southern bell tower. Researchers spent the next three months ….Read More

Mexico City Cathedral closed after leftist invasion

Nov 202007
 
 20/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 23:16 on 20/11/2007 Comments Off
Mexico City Cathedral closed after leftist invasion

“The cathedral is state property, but as a religious association we have the right to determine what religious rites are held there,” he said. “And because the site was profaned, we can declare the suspension of the rites.”

Veterans Day 2007 – Remembering the forgotten Veterans

Nov 122007
 
 12/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 15:49 on 12/11/2007 Comments Off

Many don’t realize there are National Cemeteries around the world where veterans from all wars are buried. It might surprise some to know there is also one in Mexico City, closed to internments since 1923, but still maintained today Throughout the War with Mexico it was the practice of the U.S. Army, following major military engagements, to bury the dead in mass graves on or near the battlefield where they fell. Generally, this task was performed as quickly as possible for one very practical reason: the warm climate in which most of the war was fought hastened decomposition.

Mexico City police have new powers to fight DUI’s

Oct 162007
 
 16/10/2007  Posted by PMC at 09:56 on 16/10/2007 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY – Drunk driving has long been seen in Mexico as little worse than dropping litter, but the capital’s motorists are now sobering up as police jail them on the spot for getting behind the wheel after a few tequilas.Until recently, drivers were rarely stopped while under the influence and they could usually bribe the city’s notoriously corrupt traffic cops with a few pesos to get out of trouble. But Mexico City police were last month armed with new powers to ban drivers for up to three years under a points system that increases punishments for drunkenness or speeding.

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