Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, was born on October 27,1806,in Bexar. As Seguin was growing up ,Bexar was a very poor place, shattered by decades of Indian raids and violent. Seguin father Erasmo, became a friend to Stephen F. Austin and the colonist in the area. Seguin and his father both noticed the weakness of Spain and Mexico to bring endurance and growth to the area, and believed that the best goal for Bexar lay with the founding of a strong Anglo-American colony. In 1829, at age 22,Seguin was named to his first political office as a San Antonio alderman. Seguin`s constitutional coming of age corresponded with the time of great difficulty in Mexican government, with the division boiling down for those who desired a strong central government…
After running away at the age of 14, Pedro Menedez de Aviles joined the Spanish Navy. In 1549, he was presented with his first big mission. His quest was to defend the Spanish coast and vanquish the pirates that were trying to pillage the coastline. Because of his incredible triumph along the coast, in 1556 Aviles was tasked with the responsibility of beginning a settlement in Florida in order to violently remove the French. On September 8th, 1565, Aviles established the first enduring colony, naming it St. Augustine. Quickly after finishing St. Augustine, Aviles assaulted and annihilated the French and conquered Fort Caroline and renamed it San Mateo.…
Jose Arcadia Limon, a modern dance choreographer, was born on January 12, 1908 in Culiaca!n, Mexico. The eldest of 11, Limon was born to father Florencio Limo!n, a musician and conductor, and mother Francisca Traslaviña, a devoted Catholic. Living through the Mexican Revolution of 1910 had a traumatic effect on the Limon family. Limo!n would often watch friends and family members die from sickness or the hostility of the soldiers. His father and mother decided it would be best to raise their family elsewhere, so they moved to other cities in Mexico, such as Hermosillo and Nogales. The family was still surrounded by hostility, as Limon personally witnessed his uncle's death by gunshot. Eventually, the family decided it would be best to leave…
Miguel Angel Cotto Vazquez, best called Miguel Cotto, is a very skilled boxer from Puerto-Rico. He's the very first Puerto-Rican boxer to win the world titles in four totally different weight categories. He's ranking fourth within the world best middle-weight by Transnational Boxing Ranking Board (TBRB). Miguel is also known as Junito.…
Jose Guadalupe PosadaJose Guadalupe Posada is one of the most celebrated popular artists of the Americas. He greatly influenced the generation of Orozco and Rivera, who both admitted in Posada 's time to admiring and following this notable famous artist. Over his lifetime, Posada is said to have created over 20,000 original prints and in fact prints are often called posadas after him. Posada is in the distinguished tradition of cartoonists who double as political and social commentators.…
When Domingo de Ugartechea who was a military commander in Texas, got news that the American colonists of Gonzales refused to surrender a little cannon that had been given that settlement in 1831 as protection against the Indians,he told Francisco de Castañeda and 100 dragoons to retrieve it. Ugartechea came to mind that, given the tensions between the Texans and Antonio López de Santa Anna's Centralist government, the slightest provocation might ignite hostilities. So he instructed Castañeda to use force if necessary but to avoid open conflict if possible. The company rode out of San Antonio de Béxar on September 27, 1835.…
Saint José Ramón Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Saint Miguel Pro, was born on January 13, 1891, in Guadalupe, Mexico. He was one of eleven children, the oldest boy. Sadly, four of his siblings died as babies or young children. From an early age, he was heartily spiritual, as well as mischievous; he constantly entertained his family with his humor and practical jokes. St. Miguel was a dauntless child and sometimes took his pranks and fun too far, putting him in several near-death mishaps. The third oldest in his family, St. Miguel was unquestionably very close with his older sister. After she entered a convent at age 20, he started to recognize his own calling to the priesthood. Though his father wanted him to continue with the family business, Miguel lived for God and entered the Jesuit novitiate in El Llano, Michoacán in 1911. He had been studying with the Jesuit priests for only a year when a religious revolution broke out in Mexico and by 1914, the Jesuits were forced to flee the country.…
Pedro Vial is one of the earliest European explorers and trailblazers on the Southern Plains (Wishart 1). Domingo Cabello y Robles, who is the governor of Texas, sent Pedro Vial to visit the tribes along the Red River in 1784 (Tyson 2). It means something when the governor of a state sends you to do a task for him. This shows that Pedro is a well- known figure. This voyage requested from the governor was to find the best course to travel between the “Spanish provincial capitals of San Antonio, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico” (Wishart 1). By the end of the year1789, Pedro Vial traversed miles upon miles of land, he explored the present day states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana (Tyson 2). The time that Vial dedicated to his expeditions…
Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca was the second in command of Panfilo de Narvaez’s five-ship, 600-man expedition to Florida. In my opinion Cabeza de Vaca was an acceptable leader.…
The research presented here examines the history, the pros and cons, and the future of maquiladoras along the United States and Mexico border. If you have ever had the opportunity to travel across the border it only takes a moment to see the maquiladoras flourishing in the Mexican border towns. Having had the opportunity on several occasions to take high school students on mission’s trips to work in orphanages in these border towns makes this subject of special interest to me.…
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490 c. 1559) was an early Spanish explorer of the New World and is remembered as a protoanthropological author.…
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early explorer and first historian of Texas, was born in 1490 in Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia, Spain a province in the south of Spain near Cadiz.…
Carlos Alberto Vives is a Colombian singer known for his fusion of pop vocals and Colombian Vallenato music. Vives was born in Santa Marta (a city on the northern coast of Colombia) on August 7, 1961. In addition, Carlos has been helping other groups that are surging like ChoQuibTown, that is a group of two men and a woman from a poor region located in the pacific coast of Colombia called Choco. This amazing singer is considered one of the most acclaimed artist of Latin America. According to Alisa Valdes, a journalist of the New York times, “Vives embodies the very soul of Latin America”.…
“Everything I have done in my life has been to provide for my children.” That’s what you’ll hear my dad say if you ask him about anything he’s accomplished in his life. He is a very proud and hardworking man. Even now, at 60 years old, he works harder than most 20-year-olds do. As a father he has always told us, “Nothing is handed to you; everything you have must be earned.”…
Murder in the United States are very common and does not get much attention but when the victims are rich people and the killers are their sons it is a different story. The Menendez brothers captured the United States attention by claiming the abuse by their parents was the reason behind the gruesome crime that they committed and how it impacted how the US looked at matricle and patricide cases. The Menendez family disintergrated. Literally. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to have compassion for the sons, the parents, the whole family. But even after all these years and a guilty verdict; did the brothers kill for fear or greed?…