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Mexican muralism
Mexican muralism is a state-sponsored movement of large-scale public wall painting that began in Mexico in the early 1920s, led by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Mexican Navy
The Mexican Navy (Armada de México), operating arm of the Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR), is Mexico's war navy and coast guard: 127 surface units, dual defense and law-enforcement missions, 1821 origins, drug interdiction and SAR operations.
Mexican oil expropriation of 1938
The Mexican oil expropriation of 1938 (Expropiación petrolera de 1938) was a decree by President Lázaro Cárdenas nationalizing seventeen foreign oil companies, with compensation promised within ten years.
Mexican peso
The Mexican peso, also known as the new Mexican peso, is the currency of Mexico, divided into 100 centavos and descended from the Spanish colonial silver dollar.
Mexican peso crisis
The Mexican peso crisis, known as the Tequila effect, was the December 1994 collapse of the peso that forced Mexico to float the currency and drew a $50 billion rescue.
Mexican Plateau
The Mexican Plateau (Altiplano Mexicano) is a high interior plateau of northern and central Mexico, continuing northward into the Basin and Range region of the United States.
Mexican presidential election of 1910
The Mexican presidential election of 1910 (Elecciones presidenciales de México de 1910) gave President Porfirio Díaz an eighth term over the imprisoned opposition candidate Francisco I. Madero.
Mexican raccoon
Mexican raccoon is an informal name usually applied to the white-nosed coati (Nasua narica, tejón), though Mexico's true raccoons are Procyon lotor and the Critically Endangered Cozumel-endemic pygmy raccoon Procyon pygmaeus.
Mexican Repatriation
Mexican Repatriation: the 1929–1930s removal of roughly 400,000 to 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans, many U.S. citizens, from the U.S. to Mexico during the Great Depression, via coercion, raids, and county programs.
Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana), 1910–1920 armed conflict begun by Francisco Madero's revolt against Porfirio Díaz; produced the social-rights Constitution of 1917 and the party that became the PRI.
Mexican Spanish
Mexican Spanish, or español de México, is the set of Spanish varieties spoken in Mexico, a major dialectal macro-area alongside Andean, Caribbean, Rioplatense, Chilean, and Peninsular Spanish; known for strong consonantism, Nahuatl lexical influence, distinctive diminutives, and rich dialectal zoning.
Mexican standoff
Mexican standoff is a confrontation where any move provokes deadly retaliation, originating in 1876 American slang. It is now a common term for a stalemate in Westerns, action, and comedy.
Mexican Student Movement of 1968
The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 was a wave of student protest in Mexico City against President Díaz Ordaz's government, ending with the army firing on a rally in Tlatelolco on October 2.
Mexican telegraph network
The Mexican telegraph network was the system of overland telegraph lines built across Mexico from 1851, growing to more than 65,000 km of line by 1899.
Mexican Texas
Mexican Texas, 1821–1836: the period when Texas was a province and department of Coahuila y Texas in independent Mexico, opened to Anglo-American colonization under the empresario system and the 1824 federal constitution, ending with the Texas Revolution.
Mexican Train
Mexican Train, also called Mexican Train Dominoes, is a domino game for 2-8 players using a double-twelve set of 91 tiles, with personal trains plus one shared train, covered doubles, and lowest-pip scoring, distinct from Chicken Foot's shared layout.
Mexican War of Independence
Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821), Guerra de Independencia de México: armed struggle ending Spanish rule in New Spain. Began with Hidalgo's Grito de Dolores, continued under Morelos, consummated by Iturbide's Plan de Iguala and the Treaty of Córdoba in 1821.
Mexican wolf
Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi, lobo): smallest, rarest, most genetically distinct gray wolf subspecies of North America; extirpated by the 1970s, saved by captive breeding, reintroduced in 1998 (US) and 2011 (Mexico); 319 wild wolves by 2025.
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, under which Mexico ceded more than half its territory.
Mexicana de Aviación
Mexicana de Aviación was a Mexican airline founded in 1921 and the country's oldest carrier until flights stopped in 2010; the brand returned as a state-owned airline in 2023.
Mexicans
Mexicans (mexicanos) are the people of Mexico, about 130.9 million in 2025, plus 37.2 million people of Mexican origin in the U.S., the largest Hispanic group, counted as an ethnicity, not a race.
Mexico
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), a North American federal republic of about 132 million people, is the second largest economy in Latin America, with US-bound trade over 80% of exports, first female president Claudia Sheinbaum, and a 1917 constitution.
Mexico and weapons of mass destruction
Mexico does not possess weapons of mass destruction; it instead authored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, establishing the first nuclear-weapon-free zone in an inhabited region, headquartered in Mexico City.
Mexico APL study
Mexico APL study (NCT04562818), a retrospective multicenter study by Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia de Mexico of 360 acute promyelocytic leukemia patients treated 2007-2017 with anthracycline plus ATRA, reporting 84% overall survival at 150 months.
Mexico Basin
Mexico Basin, formerly Sigsbee Deep, is a GEBCO-registered undersea basin in the deep Gulf of Mexico between 22°30′N 95°00′W and 25°00′N 90°00′W; distinct from the landlocked Basin of Mexico.
Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México, CDMX), capital of Mexico on the former Lake Texcoco bed at 2,240 m; founded as Tenochtitlan in 1325, rebuilt after the 1521 conquest; about 21.3 million in the metro area, sinking up to 25 cm per year.
Mexico City Arena
Mexico City Arena, formally Arena Ciudad de México, is an indoor arena in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, that opened in 2012 with a capacity of about 22,300.
Mexico City flood of 1629
The Mexico City flood of 1629 (inundación de la Ciudad de México de 1629), known as the Diluvio de San Mateo, submerged the capital of New Spain, killing about 30,000 people.
Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport, also known as Benito Juárez International Airport, is the main airport of Mexico City, serving more than 44 million passengers a year.
Mexico City Metro
The Mexico City Metro, or Metro de la Ciudad de México, is the rapid transit system serving Mexico City, opened in 1969 with 12 lines.