Cultura Chinchorro

Lorenzo de Zavala fue uno de los participantes más enigmáticos en la configuración del México independiente y una de las figuras más polémicas del siglo XIX mexicano. Defendió la independencia de México pero acabó como vicepresidente de la efímera República de Texas, renunciando a su nacionalidad.

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

Una ola de acciones terroristas azota a Mxico: crmenes, asaltos, secuestros, siniestros, agre-sin contra refugiados en la frontera sur; expulsin de indocumentados en el norte del pas; enfrentamientos entre narcos; corrupcin de funcionarios; rumores de devaluacin del peso; diatribas contra el presidente y una bomba molotov estalla en el Palacio Nacional. Es una desdichada convergencia de adversidades, exclaman algunos columnistas y, agregan: su lgica poltica no tiene autor comprobable, pero sus consecuencias demoledoras apuntan slo en una direccin: la desestabilizacin en marcha del rgimen...

When looking at historical photographs of Guadalupe residents, one sees the faces that represent the area s unique and diverse past. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Chumash and mapped by Spanish explorers, Guadalupe was first named in the 1840s Mexican land grant honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the title given to the Virgin Mary. Through the years, waves of immigrants made their way to Guadalupe to take advantage of the fertile soil and unique geographic features, the most prominent of which are the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, which contain some of the tallest sand dunes on Earth and have...