F-YEAH HISTORY!

A teacher talks with soldiers in front of a high school whilst students demonstrate in the background, Mexico City - 30th July, 1968

Cattle are led into a pit, where they are shot and buried to stop an epidemic of foot and mouth disease, Mexico, 1947

U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos are showered with tons of confetti and paper, June 29, 1962, as they travel down one of Mexico City’s boulevards shortly after Kennedy’s arrival for a three-day visit.

ON THIS DAY: 13th May 1846 - The United States declared war on Mexico after a series of disputes in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, starting the Mexican–American War
Image shows a painting of the Battle of Veracruz by Carl Nebel

An 1836 lithograph of Mexican women making tortillas
Mexican women making tortillas which are an unleavened flatbread and have been a staple of Mesoamerican food for centuries, dating to approximately 10,000 BCE. The name “tortilla” comes from the Spanish word “torta”, which means “round cake”.

A member of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, playing a crude 3 string slide guitar in Chiapas, Mexico, 1996. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.

Lucio Cabañas
Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (December 12, 1938 – December 2, 1974) was a Mexican schoolteacher who became a revolutionary, albeit not a Marxist one. Cabañas regarded Emiliano Zapata as his role model and he never abandoned his Christian faith, as can be seen in Gerardo Tort’s film documentary on him.