Thousand-Year-Old Maya City Discovered in Campeche
Mexican and Slovenian archaeologists used LiDAR to find Minanbé in the Calakmul reserve, with a 13-meter temple and a stela carved with a decapitation scene dated 849.
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Exhibition on Maya Culture Amazes in China
The “most ambitious and largest-scale” international exhibition in the museum’s nearly 10-year history. More than 800 artifacts fill Beijing’s Capital Museum, where curators trace parallels between Mayan, Inca and Chinese civilization.
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José Clemente Orozco. The Terrible Gaze
Justino Fernández used to say that Orozco’s painting contains signs whose message does not leave the public at peace; it is an expression of the consciousness of his time.
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Sanampay. Yesterday, Today & Always.
In 1977, almost half a century ago, one of the most popular groups in Latin American folk and nueva canción was formed in Mexico, giving a new dimension to Andean music.
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El Buen Cine, Mexico City’s DVD Store Holding its Own Against Streaming & Gentrification
For over 15 years, a space for film buffs and the curious has been one of the last DVD stores in Mexico City.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers to Strike Tomorrow
In February, workers held a symbolic strike, demanding an end to reprisals and labor exploitation, as well as the payment of fair wages.
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Multiplying the Readers
Government agencies and sectors of civil society can, and indeed should, contribute to building more and better opportunities that normalize the appeal of reading.
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Cine Mujer Collective Celebrates Sisterhood as Resistance in ‘Rebeladas’ Documentary
In the late 1970s, amidst a patriarchal society, the Cine Mujer Collective emerged, feminist filmmakers who found in cinema the ideal political tool to denounce gender problems that defined Mexican society at the time.
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“Dignified wages are not concessions: they are constitutional rights” – Striking Cultural Workers Respond to Mexico’s Cultural Secretariat
2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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Workers Occupy Culture Secretariat, Demand 13% Wage Increase
2,000 workers have been receiving incomes below Mexico’s minimum wage for over two years.
