Mexico

Mexico is the second-largest country by population in North America, and the largest in the Spanish-speaking world, with approx. 130 million people. It’s a large and diverse country, encompassing the territories of great Mesoamerican civilisations like the Aztecs and the Mayans (the latter in part). In January 2020 I visited Mexico City and the Yucatán Peninsula, and loved them both.

Wiki

2022-09-08: 🪴 Mexico’s Dirty War: The Dirty War was a seven-year period in 1970s Mexico during which successive governments – in an ostensibly democratic …
2022-07-31: 🪴 Andrés Manuel López Obrador: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (often known by his initials, AMLO) has been, since 2018, the President of Mexico. He is a …
2022-01-21: 💬 Nahuatl: Nahuatl is an indigenous language of Mexico, with about 1.7 million modern-day speakers. It is an agglutinative, …
2022-01-11: 🪴 tomatillo: Tomatillos are a vegetable originally domesticated in Mesoamerica, best-known in the Anglosphere as the primary …
2022-01-05: 🪴 Mayan languages: The Mayan languages are a family of languages spoken in Mesoamerica, i.e. Guatemala, Belize and southeastern Mexico. …
2021-08-25: 🍱 corn: Corn, or maize, is a plant that I always knew growing up as a vegetable (in the form of sweet corn), but is actually a …
2021-08-23: 🍱 amaranth: First got onto this topic via “amaranth wafers”, which are popular in Mexico and, increasingly, the US. You …
2020-06-22: 💬 Mesoamerican language area: Mesoamerica is a linguistically diverse place, with languages from the Uto-Aztecan family (like Nahuatl), the Mayan …
2020-06-13: 💬 Spanish: Spanish (also known as Castilian) is the most widely spoken of the Romance languages, with an estimated 483 million …

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Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.