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Cristero movement

The Cristero movement (La Cristiada) was a Catholic rebellion in west-central Mexico that fought the anticlerical laws of the 1917 Constitution from 1927 to 1929.

Cristero War

The Cristero War (Guerra Cristera, La Cristiada) was Mexico's 1926-1929 armed conflict between Catholic Cristero rebels and the anticlerical revolutionary government of Plutarco Elías Calles, ending with the June 1929 Morrow-brokered arreglos.

Cristian M. Stevens

Cristian Matthew Stevens, born 1973, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Cristian Morales

Cristian Morales is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 43rd Congressional District, running for office for the first time.

Cristina Aldeguer-Roque

Cristina Aldeguer-Roque is a Filipino entrepreneur who founded the clothing brand Kamiseta in 1990 and has led the Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry since 2024.

Cristina Castro (Illinois politician)

Cristina Castro is an American politician, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate from the 22nd district, first elected in 2016 after serving on the Kane County Board.

Cristina D. Silva

Cristina D. Silva, also known as Cristina Dionne Silva, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2022.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), Argentine president 2007–2015 and vice president 2019–2023, widow of Néstor Kirchner; convicted in the Vialidad case, under house arrest since June 2025.

Cristina Fonseca

Cristina Fonseca is a Portuguese telecommunications engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the customer-service software company Talkdesk and the Lisbon venture capital firm Indico Capital Partners.

Cristina Gherasimov

Cristina Gherasimov, born 1984, is a Moldovan politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration since February 2024, leading EU accession negotiations.

Cristina Gutierrez

Maria Cristina Gutierrez (1951-2004) was a Baltimore criminal defense lawyer, counsel of record in Maryland v. Craig and Adnan Syed's trial attorney, disbarred by consent in 2001.

Cristina Narbona Ruiz

María Cristina Narbona Ruiz, born 1951 in Madrid, is a Spanish Socialist politician who served as Minister of the Environment and has been president of the PSOE since 2017.

Cristina Nuñez

Cristina Nuñez is an American beauty and wellness investor who co-founded True Beauty Ventures in 2020 after operating roles at Laura Geller and Clark's Botanicals.

Cristina Saralegui

Cristina Saralegui, known as Cristina or the Latina Oprah, is a Cuban American journalist born 1948 in Havana who hosted Univision's El Show de Cristina from 1989 to 2010, reaching an estimated 100 million viewers, and returned in 2025 with a Karol G interview special.

Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory of Houston

Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory of Houston is a private Catholic Jesuit high school serving only low-income students, whose Corporate Work-Study Program has every student work one day weekly at 140+ Houston employers to finance a college-prep education.

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (Chicago)

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (Chicago): Jesuit Catholic college-prep school founded 1996 in Pilsen by Fr. John Foley, S.J., serving Spanish-speaking low-income families; pioneered the Corporate Work Study Program that seeded the 40-school Cristo Rey Network.

Cristo Rey Network

Cristo Rey Network: association of 41 Catholic college-preparatory high schools in 24 US states serving low-income students; founded 1996 in Chicago's Pilsen by Fr. John Foley, SJ; distinctive Corporate Work Study Program has students working one day weekly to fund their education.

Cristóbal de Molina

Cristóbal de Molina, called el Cuzqueño, was a Spanish priest in Cuzco whose Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas recorded Inca religion.

Cristóbal de Olid

Cristóbal de Olid (1488–1524 or 1525) was a Spanish conquistador who served as one of Cortés's most trusted captains in the conquest of Mexico before rebelling against him.

Cristóbal Vaca de Castro

Cristóbal Vaca de Castro was a Spanish royal judge and administrator who governed Peru from 1541 to 1544, defeating Diego de Almagro el Mozo at the battle of Chupas in 1542.

Cristóvão Jacques

Cristóvão Jacques (c. 1480 – c. 1530) was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator who commanded royal coastguard expeditions to Brazil from 1516 to 1528 to expel French brazilwood traders.

Criteria and properties of cardinal voting systems

A survey of how cardinal voting systems such as score voting fare on formal criteria: they evade Arrow's impossibility theorem, resist favorite betrayal, and face disputed monotonicity and welfare results.

Crítica (newspaper)

Crítica was a sensationalist Buenos Aires daily founded by the Uruguayan journalist Natalio Botana in 1913, remembered as the pioneer of Argentina's popular mass press.

Critical chain project management

Critical chain project management is a project planning and control method introduced by Eliyahu M. Goldratt in 1997, applying his Theory of Constraints to project scheduling.

Critical discourse analysis

Critical discourse analysis (CDA), also called Critical Discourse Studies, is a qualitative research approach analyzing how language enacts power and inequality, rooted in 1970s British critical linguistics and associated with Norman Fairclough, Wodak, and van Dijk.

Critical ethnography

Critical ethnography is a qualitative research method combining ethnographic fieldwork with explicit analysis of power, domination, and inequality, aiming to free people from repression, used mainly in education, health research, and social work.

Critical geopolitics

Critical geopolitics is an academic approach in political geography founded by Simon Dalby and Gearóid Ó Tuathail in the late 1980s, which deconstructs how states and elites construct geopolitical discourse, drawing on Foucault, Said, and feminist theory.

Critical legal studies

Critical legal studies (CLS) was a late-1970s American legal movement, led by Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz, and Roberto Unger, holding that law is indeterminate, inseparable from politics, and biased toward the status quo; it splintered into critical race theory, feminist legal thought, and law and political economy.

Critical metaphor analysis

Critical metaphor analysis is a discourse-analysis method, set out by Jonathan Charteris-Black in 2004, that identifies metaphors in texts and interprets them as instruments of persuasion and ideology.

Critical path method

The critical path method (CPM), also called critical path analysis, is a project scheduling technique developed in the late 1950s by DuPont and Remington Rand Univac.