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They were dressed in Indian saris, African robes and Western business suits, and they spoke a cacophony of languages. More than 3,000 delegates from 148 nations crowded into Mexico City's Tlaltelolco Center last week to attend the second United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Population. Their purpose was nothing less than to find ways to curb the growth of the world's population, which threatens nearly to double to 8.3 billion by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Population: A Debate over Sovereign Rights | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Said Stanza III: Last week El Gitano, held in the fortress of Santiago Tlaltelolco, had implicated important people in Loaiza's murder, was the hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quauhtlatohua's Tilma | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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