By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, fell to the invaders after a long siege ...

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...

First to make the grade is the Laredo (Texas) Times’s Publisher William Prescott Allen, a collateral descendant of the historian William Prescott (The Conquest of Mexico). Fortnight ago he got ...

There were three rulers who were in charge of Tenochtitlan, from when the Spaniards arrived, until the fall of the Mexican empire Upon their arrival, in 1919, the Spaniards had some weapons that ...

A Spanish documentary extolling the virtues of the country's conquest of the Americas now showing in Mexico has added fuel to ...

Mexico's president has sent a letter to Spain's King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologise for human rights abuses committed during the conquest of the region 500 years ago.

Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border of Texas. Mexico, however, was not so eager to let go of these territories. Polk started out by ...

UNAM experts reveal the profound impact of the Xoloitzcuintle breed in Mexico, from pre-conquest times to the present day.