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Saturday May 5th, 2012

Cinco de Mayo, sesquicentennial of the Battle of Puebla

When a ragtag Mexican army defeated the French
Thursday Feb 16th, 2012

Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba

February 16, 1959
Thursday Feb 2nd, 2012

Buenos Aires founded

February 2, 1536
Thursday Jan 26th, 2012

Pinzón becomes first European to land in Brazil

January 26, 1500
Monday
Dec 12th, 2011

Virgin of Guadalupe appears to Mexican peasant

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Monday
Apr 11th, 2011

Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Tuesday
Feb 15th, 2011

Mexico’s Struggle to “Vivir Mejor”

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Wednesday
Feb 2nd, 2011

Outbreak: Cholera in Haiti

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Tuesday
Dec 14th, 2010

Are the UN’s Millennium Development Goals missing the point?

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Friday
Nov 19th, 2010

The Centennial of the World’s First Social Revolution in Mexico

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Thursday
Nov 11th, 2010

On the Horrors of the Guatemala Syphilis Study

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