Word: yucatã
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...ancient people of the Yucat??n Peninsula were the first to crush cacao into what was later known as xocolatl--what Rosenberg calls the champagne of the Maya and Aztecs--a frothy beverage reserved for the élite and for special occasions. The Spanish took chocolate back to Europe in the 16th century, discovering the pristine and aromatic criollo bean in Venezuela along the way. Until the 19th century, Venezuela produced solely criollo cacao, which satisfied more than half the world's demand for chocolate. But when an infestation came close to wiping out all the cacao in neighboring Trinidad...
EARTH LANDING A Baptistina meteorite 6 miles across struck Mexico's Yucat??n Peninsula 65 million years ago. The resulting dust cloud may have blocked the sun and led to mass extinctions on Earth...
...presidential elections last year, and Calderón beat his left-wing opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, by only half a percentage point. Losing Mexico, the U.S.'s third largest trading partner, would have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush arrives in the Yucat??n on March 12 for a summit with Calderón to discuss the hemispheric issue most urgent to the U.S.--illegal immigration--his host will be a rare ideological soulmate in America's backyard...
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