“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often been repeated to describe the country he ruled as a ...

I happened to be in Mexico City on the night of July 1, 2018, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”) was elected Mexico’s president in a landslide. I was there to help make a documentary that had ...

In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it. A 17th-century depiction of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán, the capital ...

During archaeological salvage operations along the route of the new Mexico City-Querétaro Passenger Train, specialists from ...

An impressive and confident history of Mexico from the Aztecs to the present, Paul Gillingham’s Mexico: A 500-Year History is at once well-written and yet also somewhat unbalanced. The central theme, ...