History to be made in Mexico City
For the first time in the 86-year history of the National Football League, a regular-season game will be played outside the United States when the Arizona Cardinals face the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday night in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca.
The game, which coincides with the nation’s annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, will be televised nationally in the United States by ESPN and ESPN Deportes, and by Televisa in Mexico. Westwood One Radio will broadcast the game in English and Spanish. Kickoff is at 8:30 p.m. ET and a sold-out crowd of 85,000 is expected.
To mark this historic event, all NFL players will wear a “Fútbol Americano” decal on their helmets this weekend. Additional initiatives supporting the game and Hispanic Heritage Month will be evident this weekend:
The game will be televised in 218 countries by 18 broadcasters.
An NFL insert for 1 million readers of Spanish-language newspapers in Houston, Chicago, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix was distributed earlier this season.
Themed merchandise for the game has been developed with NFL licensees: Wilson, Reebok, Riddell, Wincraft and VF.
The first-ever Spanish-language NFL public service announcement with English subtitles will air this weekend during all games and at all NFL stadiums. It features NFL Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez speaking Spanish to young NFL fans, encouraging them to play football.
More: nfl.com
History of Puebla
The city of Puebla was founded as "La Puebla de los Ãngeles" or "La Angelópolis" on April 16, 1531. It was the first city in central Mexico founded by the Spanish conquistadors that was not built upon the ruins of a conquered Amerindian settlement. Its strategic location, half-way from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City, made it the second most important city during the colonial period. It was in this period that Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, playwright, writer, poet and nun lived a prolific life, until her confrontation with the Bishop of Puebla.
Four decades after
Mexico City: great dining, shopping, museums and history
What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit.
Victor Bustamante, 35, is a native of Mexico City, where he is in charge of the Latin American finance department for U.S.-based Bovis Lend Lease.
Q. Mexico City and New York City are close in population. New York has distinctive neighborhoods; is Mexico City like that?
A. The cities aren't comparable in that way. Mexico doesn't have too much in-migration compared to
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (The National Museum of Natural History)
It's a fascinating place for anyone with the slightest curiosity about nature and is totally absorbing for youngsters.
Hours Tues-Sun 10am-5pm
Location Chapultepec Park, Section 2, s/n
Transportation Metro: Constituyentes
Phone 55/5516-2848
Prices Admission $1.50; free admission Tues
Castle of Chapultepec
The National museum of History is an institute whose fundamental aim is the conservation, study, and exhibition of elements of the culture that the Mexican town produced during the historical period during the fall of Tenochtitlan and the Mexican Revolution. It is located in the Castle of Chapultepec, place that has a very representative historical past in the history of our country, since Chapultepec served as mulberry to the toltecas and the mexicas at the pre-Hispanic time. Soon, in the conquest of Mexico it was part of the adjudged properties to Courteous Hernán, but in 1530, by real
Plaza de las Tres Culturas
The Plaza of 3 Cultures is located at the ancient city Aztec city of Tlatelolco where you can see the ruins of You can also see the Colonial Cathedral of Santiago which dates back to 1524 (although it was rebuilt in 1609), inside there is the baptismal fountain of Juan Diego, the indian to whom, according to tradition, the Virgen de Guadalupe de Guadalupe appeared in 1531. Also nearby there are many apartment buildings, and government buildings. The Plaza of the Three Cultures in Mexico City, known as the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Spanish,
Protesters set up barricades in Mexico City
Thousands of protesters set up barricades along Mexico Citys central thoroughfare Sunday night hours after the largest demonstration in Mexicos history filled the main square in support of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors election challenge.
Police made no effort to intervene as the protesters set up tents and blocked traffic, apparently in response to Lopez Obradors call for the establishment of 47 permanent assemblies to press his claims of fraud in the July 2 elections. Lopez Obrador lost the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 1 percent of 41 million ballots cast.
Chapultepec Park
The Chapultepec Forest is a park of Mexico City, whose name means in nahuatl ( the language of the aztecs) "locoust hill" and it is the main cultural and recreative center of the city and it´s one of the biggest, most beautiful and most visited parks of world. The Chapultepec Park that is know by the habitants of the city as Chapultepec Forest, takes its name from the hill were it's located, in whose top is the famous Chapultepec Castle, that has been been witness of the mexican history since pre-hispanic times and that is surrounded by beautiful gardens
History Museum: Monterrey
Roh Meets Mexico’s Korean Community
President Roh Moo-hyun arrived in Mexico City for a three-day visit on Thursday as part of a trip that will also take him to Costa Rica and the UN General Assembly in New York.
His first order of business was a talk with ethnic Koreans in the Central American country to mark 100 years since 1,033 Koreans with passports issued by the Daehan Empire immigrated to Mexico on Sept. 8, 1905.
Roh was given the passport of one of them, Kim Jin-myeong, who was 26 at the time, by Ko Heung-ryong, who made the historic boat
Agents at Mexico City Airport Seize 585 Kilograms of Cocaine
Federal agents searching the cargo hold of a flight from Venezuela on Monday discovered at least 585 kilograms (1,290 pounds) of cocaine tucked inside 13 cardboard boxes - one of the largest cocaine seizures in the history of the Mexican capital's airport.
Dogs trained to smell drugs led authorities to the discovery aboard Mexicana Airlines Flight 374, which landed at Benito Juarez International Airport from Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, according to a federal police spokesman.
A statement from the federal attorney general's office said that 585 kilograms of cocaine had been divided carefully
