Mexico - here we come

Sunday 8th October, 2017

We were just talking about going on another trip. I suggested Mexico.

Paul fished out some issues of Wanderlust and the nest thing we knew, we were booking two return flights.

Then Paul checked the foreign office -  There's drug related violence, political related violence, not to mention the recent devastating earthquakes! Someone else told us that Mexico was the only place her mother, who had backpacked around most of the world, had been mugged.

But the Mexican's, it would seem, have been badly treated. Here is a quick resume:

1519  Cortex lands in Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico.
1521  Mexico city built on the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan to become the capital city of                New Spain.
1525  Most of the pre-invasion population have been slaughtered by sword or desease.
1524  Chritianity arrives in the guise of Franciscan monks.
1546 The Spanish discover silver.
1560-90  Chichimeca war.
1551  Spanish Conquistadors take the Yucatan peninsular.
1810 Mexican War of Independence
1846 Mexican/US war provoked by the US ended 2 years later with Mexico conceding almost half of her territory to the US
1912 Mexican Revolution finally gets rid of the idiot that lost the territory.
1917 Mexican constitution
1997 North American free trade agreement - Canada, US and Mexico.

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