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Unlock the Mysteries of Mexico’s Hidden Beliefs From mal de ojo to milagros, lucky charms to forbidden foods, Mexican culture is filled with vibrant superstitions and powerful traditions that shape daily life. Whether you’re planning a trip, building relationships, or just curious about the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution It begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatán. Only ten years later, an army of European adventurers and indigenous rebels seized the island...

This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world’s most-wanted drug-lord. Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo Escobar. But for every one of these criminals...

Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to 20 tons of cocaine each year into the United States before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death. 

Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than 13 centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the deep research and entertaining storytelling of Peter Tsouras. Tsouras introduces the reader to the colossal personalities of the period.

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco to Mongolia. But how did this tasty hand-held food - and Mexican food more broadly - become so ubiquitous? In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as a Mexican American fast-food, shows how surfers became global pioneers of Mexican food, and how Corona beer conquered the world.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A century after the conquest, the Aztec gods were still worshipped in secret. This is the record of what was hidden, in its first English translation. “I am the priest, the very war, for whom everything is a joke and a laughing matter.” In the...

In 1519, Hernando Cortés arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire. What he encountered was beyond his wildest dreams; an advanced civilization with complex artistic, political, and religious systems (involving extensive human sacrifice) and replete with gold. This was the Aztec empire, headed by the aloof emperor, Montezuma.

Bloomsbury presents El Narco by Ioan Grillo, read by Paul Thornley. 'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23,000 dead in five years - and sheer...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From the great pyramid of Chichén Itzá to the yellow city of Izamal, from the flamingos of Celestún to the cenotes of Homún, the convents route, the Puuc route and the beaches of the peninsula, this guide by José Eduardo Díaz Cutz takes you...

Cada fin de año, en México nos da por pensar en el pasado y en el futuro, en lo que hicimos mal y en lo que podemos mejorar “si Dios y la Virgen quieren”. Esta emoción de abrir y cerrar ciclos viene con una fuerte carga cultural y simbólica relacionada con nuestros ritos y supersticiones: barrer la casa, pasear con maletas, comer doce uvas…

Continue the journey through the history, adventure, tension, and dangers faced by the Conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes - the Alexander of the Americas - as they continue their epic tale of conquest against the Mexican Empire. After Cortes' expulsion from the Mexican capital on the much-lamented Night of Sorrows, the Conquistadors are reeling and their alliances crumbling. Hernan Cortes, unbowed and undaunted, refuses to give up the fight and determines to stay the course of the war against the Aztecs, and his own countrymen, to its bitter conclusion.

In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera’s wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky: Downfall ofa Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history's most famous yet elusive figures.

Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious 12-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer, she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their pasts. As the ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out, and questions emerge.

The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the US role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from and sell weapons to Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the US prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer - with increasingly deadly consequences.

Mexico has survived empires, invasions, dictators, revolutions, economic disasters, foreign occupations, political corruption, volcanic geography, and the occasional decision to build a city on top of a lake and simply hope for the best. Somehow, against all reasonable expectations, it keeps...

在危机四伏的古墨西哥谷地，一个流浪的弱小部落凭藉严酷的地缘战略与冷酷结盟，逆袭成为统治中美洲的庞大古代帝国。这不是一场由神明眷顾而命中注定的崛起传奇，而是在资源天花板与强敌环伺的绝境中，依靠极致生存...

كيف تحولت جماعة رحّالة إلى قوة مهيمنة في تاريخ أمريكا الوسطى لتبني إمبراطورية ضخمة خلال قرنين فقط؟ هذه الرحلة الصوتية الملحمية، والمثالية لترافقك في أوقات...

Ontdek een meeslepende historische reis waarin inheemse beschavingen en meedogenloze koloniale krachten keihard botsen. Deze gelaagde, sfeervolle luisterervaring is perfect om tijdens je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer volledig in te verdwijnen. Je wordt direct meegezogen in de onophoudelijke strijd...

Testemunhe como uma tribo nômade forjou um épico império militar e político na Mesoamérica em apenas duzentos anos. Perfeita para enriquecer seu trajeto diário, esta jornada imersiva transporta você para o coração do Vale do México. Sinta a tensão das alianças impiedosas e táticas...