Six on Mexico: Village Where Aztec-Era Agriculture Remains; Weight gains from trade in foods: Evidence from Mexico; Millions
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- A Mexican Village Where Aztec-Era Agriculture Remains
A Mexican Village Where Aztec-Era Agriculture Remains
Feike de Jong, Gustavo Graf
“We could solve the subsistence problem ourselves without asking anything of the government...” says an owner of...
Millions of Devotees Honor Virgin of Guadalupe"Millions traveled to the city of Guadalupe in a mass pilgrimage on the 486th anniversary of the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe Tuesday.
Cloaked in stars with the moon at her feet and the sun shining behind her, the Virgin of Guadalupe is the image of strength and has served as an icon to the Mexican and Mestizo people since the 16th century."
Millions of Devotees Honor Virgin of Guadalupe
Millions of parishioners braved the cold weather to honor the virgin on her feast.
Is Mexico the most dangerous country on earth?"Arturo Cano, a journalist with the prominent Mexican newspaper La Jornada, once commented to me on the perverse symbiosis that has long characterised the US-Mexico relationship: "Mexico provides the cheap labour and the US provides the deportees. Mexico provides the dead and disappeared and the US the armies of drug users".
Cano went on to invoke a lament attributed to former Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, who died in 1915: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States".
Is Mexico the most dangerous country on earth?
Belen Fernandez
Or does it just suffer from the misfortune of being a neighbour of the US?
Mexican opposition candidates slam Trump wall ahead of campaign
Mexican opposition candidates slam Trump wall ahead of campaign
Michael O'Boyle
Two Mexican opposition candidates on Sunday vowed to take a tougher line against U.S. President Donald Trump's b...
Salmonella may have been the cause of the devastation of the Aztec populationMonday Jan 15, 2018 · 1:51 PM ESTScientists have never been able to pinpoint the exact disease that killed millions of native Aztecs in the middle 1500s, which in turn helped Europeans dominate the region during their conquest of the “New World.” In 1545, between 7 and 17 million people died during an outbreak in the Mexican highlands, and one group of scientists believe they may have figured out the specific pathogen that led to the death of so many.
Indigenous populations of the Americas experienced high mortality rates during the early contact period as a result of infectious diseases, many of which were introduced by Europeans. Most of the pathogenic agents that caused these outbreaks remain unknown. Through the introduction of a new metagenomic analysis tool called MALT, applied here to search for traces of ancient pathogen DNA, we were able to identify Salmonella enterica in individuals buried in an early contact era epidemic cemetery at Teposcolula-Yucundaa, Oaxaca in southern Mexico. This cemetery is linked, based on historical and archaeological evidence, to the 1545–1550 CE epidemic that affected large parts of Mexico. Locally, this epidemic was known as ‘cocoliztli’, the pathogenic cause of which has been debated for more than a century. Here, we present genome-wide data from ten individuals for Salmonella entericasubsp. enterica serovar Paratyphi C, a bacterial cause of enteric fever. We propose that S. Paratyphi C be considered a strong candidate for the epidemic population decline during the 1545 cocoliztli outbreak at Teposcolula-Yucundaa.
Salmonella was the likely culprit. Science Alert explains that it was during this specific outbreak that the overwhelming majority of the native population perished.
