Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela (2 March 1900 – 30 September 1950) was a Mexican actress, journalist and creator of the Mexican film archive. One of her country’s first silent film stars, she was also a feminist and suffragette. Biography Valenzuela was born on 2 March 1900 in Mexico City, Mexico to journalist Abraham Sánchez Arce and Juana Valenzuela. She was still a student at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico), National Conservatory of Music when she made her film debut in ''Barranca trágica'' (1917). The following year, she was chosen to star in the first film adaptation of Federico Gamboa's 1902 novel, ''Santa (1918 film), Santa'' (1918). The silent film was produced by Germán Camus, directed by Luis G. Peredo It would establish a formula that prevailed in Mexico until the 1940s, the theme of the "noble prostitute", a girl typically living in urban slums, caught in the trap of the onset of modernity and industrialization. In ''Santa'', after a young peas ...
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Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ...
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