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Diego Rivera Mural  
   

Diego Rivera Mural

Just one of several of the panels in this mural. It shows the Spanish branding the natives for slavery. The second person in waiting to be branded with a star on her neck is a young mother with her baby.
Cuernavaca Adventures

July 2nd 2008
Hola mi familia & amigos, I was not sure if the last blog posted as the computer kept crashing and was very slow. I was glad to see that most of what I put on was published. We are winding down with three days left before we return home. Yesterday we went on a tour of the large Cathedral in Cuernavaca. It is the oldest Spanish structure still standing in the Western Hemisphere. We learned t ... read more
North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca

Mexican Flag The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more
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