Word: veracruz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rodriquez and his friends scout the fence for a hole big enough to wedge through. Strolling with the youths, Officer Macias cautions them to watch out for bandits and flash floods. Farther on, the cops come upon a bedraggled family from Veracruz and talk them out of attempting to ford a flooded arroyo. Though Grupo Beta cannot prevent migrants from crossing, it has moved against the "coyotes" who guide them, arresting 90 in three years. But the special teams themselves are widely suspected, by migrants and U.S. lawmen, of taking payoffs from the smugglers. "They go after us, but they...
...crossed into the Americas at least 12,000 years ago, at the end of the most recent ice age. Bits of ancient garbage and the remains of mud buildings hint that by about 2000 B.C., some of their descendants had settled in what is now the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco, living in small fishing villages along the region's rivers...
...either version, the story of Hernan Cortes' great adventure is a remarkable one. In early 1519 this wily and enterprising Castilian landed at what is now Veracruz. A few months later, he and his bedraggled company of 300 soldiers entered the Mexican capital of Tenochtitlan, a city more grand and imposing than any in Europe except Naples or Constantinople. Cortes managed to take the emperor Montezuma II hostage, but after Montezuma died during an uprising of the Mexica, apparently from wounds inflicted by his own people, the Spaniards were driven from the city. The undaunted Cortes returned with a larger...
...find the appetizers are quite honestly unnecessary. But as for the taste...when we took our first bite of an enormous brick of a beef burrito bursting with rabbit food filler, the long line at the Border became understandable. The shrimps and mussels prepared in a "Veracruz style" is aesthetically pleasing but is in reality a watered down version of a Manhattan clam chowder with the wrong ingredients. And then there is Rosalita's Whim, a sampler plate of apparently what the chef is in the mood to cook. In one corner of the Whim were the chicken quesadillas...