Word: puebla
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...thousand dusty village squares and in the vast Zócalo before Mexico City's National Palace, crowds danced, skyrockets sizzled. In historic Puebla, where girls pelted his car with flowers as he passed, President Miguel Aleman laid a wreath at the foot of the statue of General Ignacio Zaragoza...
...Cinco de Mayo-the Fifth of May-and all Mexico was celebrating the victory won 86 years ago when General Zaragoza's troops drove the glittering legions of Emperor Napoleon III down the slopes of Puebla...
Mexicans, who have a high tolerance for red-hot foods, have eaten mole for over 200 years, ever since a nun in Puebla's Santa Monica Convent, surprised when the archbishop dropped in for lunch, threw together everything in the kitchen to make a sauce for leftover turkey...
...weeks Indians had been filling the markets of Mexico City with Christmas goods. Over the mountains from Toluca and Puebla they had come dogtrotting, their backs piled high with big clay pots (piñatas), their burros laden with little clay figurines of Joseph, Mary, the Christ Child, shepherds, lambs and the Three Kings...
Last week, early passers-by on the Puebla road came upon the bodies of the six committeemen. Like the other five, Mayor Rodríguez had been shot six times. It might have been better for him if he had carried...