Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cuauhtemoc, last of the Aztec Emperors, is one of Indian Mexico's greatest heroes. After his desperate temple-to-temple defense of Mexico City against the Spaniards had collapsed in 1521, Cortes captured him, took him as a prisoner on a campaign of conquest through the southern jungles. There, in 1525, the conqueror had the emperor hanged. For more than 400 years, scholars have wondered what became of Cuauhtemoc's body. Last week, in the muddy village of Ixcateopan, 120 miles southwest of Mexico City, the riddle was finally solved...
Construction gangs cut down stately, 40-foot trees along Mexico City's famed Paseo de la Reforma. Bulldozers ripped at the broad islands on which the trees stood, and cranes swung weathered statues from street-side pedestals. Cuauhtémoc himself, last of the Aztec princes, was hauled from his sandstone eminence near the Paseo's intersection with Avenida Insurgentes. In his place, concrete mixers poured new pavements...
...reassuring to know that warm, red blood courses hungrily through the petrified veins of that Aztec...
Rivera considers it more important than any of his paintings: "I have always wanted to do architecture, and this could be the beginning of a new architectural tradition in Mexico-part Aztec, part Mayan, and also my own." It is ages removed from the Italian-marble Palace of Fine Arts, ten miles distant...
...part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...