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Gorgeous, too bad that event if surrounded by tragedy

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Graphic design from the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico City.

i love I.T. Crowd

Update: photos show one of the largest tombs ever discovered in Mexico

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A view of a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa.

A view of the building (top) where archeologists found a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa.

An archeologist brushes off dust at a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa.

Archeologists work at the entrance of a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa. More.

What is your favorite Spanish word? It might say a lot about you and your identity

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Read on to find out what Gael Garcia Bernal’s favorite Spanish word is.

By ARTURO CONDE

Every summer, the Instituto Cervantes, a Spanish cultural organization with 73 centers around the world, celebrates “El día E,” a day to commemorate the Spanish language and its international community of nearly 500 million Spanish speakers.

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Downtown Abbey: Series 2-Episode 5……………………..this is me at two in the morning.

Downtown Abbey: Series 2-Episode 5……………………..this is me at two in the morning.

Why Anderson Cooper’s coming out matters - and what Latinos can learn from it

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Out and proud, Anderson Cooper on the job reporting. 

By EBONY MONTENEGRO and NURIA NET

It happened this morning. Anderson Cooper officially came out, not via Twitter or a magazine cover story, but rather in an unceremonious, honest email to The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan.

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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, was first awarded in 1963. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín became the award’s first Latin American recipient that same year, while still in office as the island’s first democratically-elected head of…

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Dr. Hector P. García (1914-1996), a World War II veteran and the founder of the American G.I. Forum, a veterans’ rights group, became the first Mexican-American recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Dr. Hector P. García (1914-1996), a World War II veteran and the founder of the American G.I. Forum, a veterans’ rights group, became the first Mexican-American recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.