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Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

(Encyclopedia)Santo Domingo Tehuantepec: see Tehuantepec, Mexico. ...

Ciudad Porfirio Díaz

(Encyclopedia)Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, Mexico: see Piedras Negras. ...

Lorde, Audrey Geraldine

(Encyclopedia)Lorde, Audre, 1934–1992, African-American poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (M.L.S. 1961). Lorde was born to...

Juárez

(Encyclopedia)Juárez, officially Heroica Ciudad Juárez, city (1990 pop. 789,522) Chihuahua state, N Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso, Tex. Connected with the United States by three international bridges...

Echeverría Álvarez, Luis

(Encyclopedia)Echeverría Álvarez, Luis lo͞oēsˈ āchāvār-rēˈä älˈvärās [key], 1922–, president of Mexico (1970–76). A lawyer, he was formerly a law professor. As a member of the ruling Institutiona...

Ixtacíhuatl

(Encyclopedia)Ixtacíhuatl or Ixtaccíhuatl: see Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico. ...

Santiago, Río Grande de

(Encyclopedia)Santiago, Río Grande de, river, Mexico: see Lerma. ...

Victoria de Durango

(Encyclopedia)Victoria de Durango: see Durango, city, Mexico. ...

Jalapa

(Encyclopedia)Jalapa or Jalapa Enriquez: see Xalapa, Mexico. ...

skunk

(Encyclopedia)skunk, name for several related New World mammals of the weasel family, characterized by their conspicuous black and white markings and use of a strong, highly offensive odor for defense. The scent gl...