Word: oaxaca
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...Mexico City, before dawn one morning last week, 34-year-old Captain Gabriel Avila Camacho stopped for breakfast at Wimpy's, a hot-dog tavern on the Avenida Oaxaca, near the U.S. Embassy. He was on his way to Texcoco, 25 miles away, where he was building a factory. Gabriel is the youngest of four Avila Camacho brothers. His older brother, Manuel, is President of Mexico...
...office and handed him a note. Dr. Najera read the note, then tucked it into a diplomatic pouch and sent it by airplane to Mexico City. There the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read it, made a careful copy for study, forwarded the original to the State of Oaxaca, where President Lázaro Cárdenas was on a tour of inspection. Soulful Señior Cárdenas read it, said nothing but that he would "answer at an opportune time...
...presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green toad with a semi-human crested head making a horrid bawling grimace. It is about the size of a big apple, with holes in the topknot and sides, apparently...
With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
...news sent gold hunters dashing for Oaxaca. Everyone in Mexico knows that Hernando Cortes and his rough Spaniards, although they accumulated shiploads of wrought Indian gold, took only a fraction of the Mexican treasures. Priests and courtiers dumped roomfuls of gold into lakes, pitched them into caverns and crevices, plugged them in tombs. Four centuries of riflings have not found all the caches...