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Summers’ visit and the DRCLAS advisory committee meeting coincided with a two-day Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) bash in Mexico City. The fundraiser, which kicked off with a cocktail party at the 14th century Chapultepec Castle, drew more than 400 Harvard grads, according to Summers’ spokeswoman Lucie McNeil. Alums each paid $140 to attend...
High above the smog-smothered skyscrapers, on the parapets of Chapultepec Castle, the bronze statues of six young soldiers strike a gallant pose. The teenage cadets revered by every Mexican as the ``Boy Heroes'' died defending the fortress against Yanquis in 1847. Every Sept. 13, the President of Mexico, his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps assemble at the Mexico City fortress to recall the defeat that led to el despojo territorial, what Mexicans consider the unjust seizure of their land that now makes up California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico...
Cardenas was born in 1934, the year his father became President. In a gesture of populism, Lazaro Cardenas abandoned Chapultepec Castle, in which the Emperor Maximilian and nearly all subsequent Mexican rulers lived. Instead, the President, his wife and his son -- who was named for the last Aztec emperor and whose name is pronounced Kwa-tay-mok -- moved into Los Pinos, a white stone box set in a corner of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. "I have only isolated images of it," says Cardenas of his boyhood home. "But one thing I do remember: I was given every possible opportunity...
Bertoldo Garcia Cruz, a car mechanic, had just taken his son to Public School No. 3 on Avenida Chapultepec. "We were in the school's main office when everything around us, four floors, went down. I helped take out four bodies, mutilated, all 14-year-olds. I took one out who was injured, but maybe he'll live...
Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich interviewed Echeverria at Los Pinos, his official residence in wooded Chapultepec Park in the heart of Mexico City. "No longer is the President's residence a show place of expensive imported European furnishings as it has been in the past," cabled Diederich. "Instead, each of the public rooms is a permanent exhibition of folk art and crafts from all of Mexico's 31 states and territories. It is a fitting setting, for these days bare-legged Tarahumara Indians from the Sierra Madre or huarache...