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Matehuala
Matehuala is the second most important city in the Mexican state of San Luis PotosÃ. It is located at around , at an elevation of about 1,500 m. Matehuala is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name, located in the northern part of the state, on the border with the southwestern corner of Nuevo León. The city of Matehuala population is of 176,876. The municipality has an area of . Government Municipal presidents Notable people *Juan José Ortega - film director and producer (1904–1996) Notable buildings * Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Matehuala has the same architectural style as the Church of Saint Joseph des Brotteaux, in Lyon, France. Its construction started in 1898 and was never finished. * Iglesia SantÃsima de Guadalupe See also *Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Matehuala The Immaculate Conception Cathedral ( es, Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción), also Matehuala Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of Matehuala, in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édgar Morales Pérez
Édgar Morales Pérez was the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico, elected on July 1, 2012. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), which are in a coalition in his municipality. The National Action Party (PAN) had ruled Matehuala for several years, and Morales Pérez was scheduled to take office in September 2012. On August 12, 2012, he and his campaign manager Juan Francisco Hernández Colunga were killed by gunfire while driving home from a birthday party. Hernández's wife survived the attack but could not identify the perpetrators. Several publications described the attack as part of a broader crime wave. Three days earlier a van with fourteen corpses in the back had been found next to a highway in the state. In Veracruz on August 12, a family of seven, including four children, were found beheaded. In the state of Michoacán that same week, gangsters burned several buses and engaged in gun ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Matehuala
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral ( es, Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción), also Matehuala Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of Matehuala, in the state of San Luis Potosà in Mexico. Although the cathedral is open for worship, it is still under construction. Its style is neo-Gothic / neo-Byzantine. The first stone was laid in 1906 with slight variations in its dimensions. The northern ship was the first body to be finished and to be used for religious celebrations, known by the matehualenses as "the ship". In the middle of the twentieth century the first phase of the cathedral's construction was completed at the end of the altar, the south nave and the lateral ones. The cathedral is not yet finished and the towers of the main façade are being built. See also *Roman Catholicism in Mexico *Immaculate Conception The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Luis PotosÃ
San Luis Potosà (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosà ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis PotosÃ), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is San Luis Potosà City. Located in Central Mexico, San Luis Potosà is bordered by seven other Mexican states: Nuevo León to the north; Tamaulipas to the north-east; Veracruz to the east; Hidalgo, Querétaro and Guanajuato to the south; and Zacatecas to north-west. In addition to the capital city, other major cities in the state include Ciudad Valles, Matehuala, Rioverde, and Tamazunchale. History In pre-Columbian times, the territory now occupied by the state of San Luis Potosà contained parts of the cultural areas of Mesoamerica and Aridoamerica. Its northern and western-central areas were inhabited by the Otomi and Chichimeca tribes. These indigenous groups were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Although many indigenou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan José Ortega
Juan José Ortega (October 27, 1904 – December 27, 1996) was a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema The Golden Age of Mexican cinema ( es, Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano) is a period in the history of the Cinema of Mexico between 1930 and 1969 when the Mexican film industry reached high levels of production, quality and economic success of its ..., and directed over 40 films between 1942 and 1966. Filmography director * Flor de fango (1942) * Lo que sólo el hombre puede sufrir (1943) * La razón de la culpa (1943) * La hija del cielo (1943) * El rosario (1944) * ''El abanico de Lady Windermere'' (1944) * Toda una vida (1945) * Sendas del destino (1945) * La mujer legÃtima (1945) * La casa de la zorra (1945) * Amar es vivir (1946) * La insaciable (1947) * El ángel caÃdo (1949) * ''Zorina (film), Zorina'' (1949) * Cuando el alba llegue (1950) * ''Ritmos del Caribe'' (1950) * Lodo y armiño (1951) * La menti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catedral De La Inmaculada Concepción
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Catedral may refer to: * Catedral (Buenos Aires Underground), a station * Catedral (district), a district of the San José canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica * Cerro Catedral, a mountain and ski resort in Argentina * Cerro Catedral (Uruguay), the highest peak in Uruguay See also * Cathedral (other) A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop. Cathedral or The Cathedral may also refer to: Geography * Cathedral, Colorado * Cathedral Cavern (other), the name for several natural and industrial structures * Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Alliance Party (Mexico)
The New Alliance Party ( es, Partido Nueva Alianza, PNA or PANAL) is a state-level (previously national, until 2018) political party in Mexico founded in 2005. Its creation was proposed by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE, National Union of Education Workers), the largest trade union in Latin America, led by Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial former general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). History The New Alliance Party achieved its official registry on July 14, 2005,https://nueva-alianza.org.mx/historia/ Retrieved Dec 16, 2018. three years after the SNTE created the Asociación Ciudadana del Magisterio (ACM, Citizen Association of Teachers), a political group recognized by the Federal Electoral Institute since August 2002. The creation of this party by the SNTE, a group that had traditionally supported the PRI in every election, caused accusations of treason for Gordillo. The party's president is Jorge Kahwagi. On 8 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partido Conciencia Popular , a town in Dajabón Province of the Dominican Republic
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Partido, partidista and partidario may refer to: * Spanish for a political party, people who share political ideology or who are brought together by common issues Territorial subdivision * Partidos of Buenos Aires, the second-level administrative subdivision in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Partidos of Chile, a third-level subdivision in Colonial Chile below intendencias, also known as ''corregimientos'' * Judicial district, shortened from ''partido judicial'' in some Spanish-speaking countries * Partido (region), a non-autonomous administrative region during the times of the Spanish Empire in the Americas Places * Partido, Dominican Republic Partido is a town in the Dajabón province of the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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PRD may refer to: Political parties *Democratic Renewal Party (Angola) (''Partido Renovador Democrático'') *Democratic Renewal Party (Benin) (''Parti de Renouveau Démocratique'') *Dominican Revolutionary Party (''Partido Revolucionario Dominicano''), a political party in the Dominican Republic *People's Democratic Party (Indonesia) (''Partai Rakyat Demokratik'') *Party of the Democratic Revolution (''Partido de la Revolución Democrática''), a political party in Mexico *Democratic Revolutionary Party (''Partido Revolucionario Democrático''), a political party in Panama *Democratic Renewal Party (Portugal) (''Partido Renovador Democrático''), a former political party *Democratic Reformist Party (''Partido Reformista Democrático''), a former political party in Spain *Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (''Parti radical-démocratique''), a former political party Science and technology *Partial rootzone drying, an irrigation technique *''Physical Review D'', a scientific journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of The Democratic Revolution
The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, es, Partido de la Revolución Democrática, ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRD was formed after the contested general election in 1988, which the PRD's immediate predecessor, the National Democratic Front, believed was rigged by the PRI. This sparked a movement away from the PRI's authoritarian rule. As of 2020, the PRD is a member of the Va por México coalition. Internationally, the PRD is a member of the Progressive Alliance. The members of the party are known colloquially in Mexico as ''Perredistas''. History Early origins Break from the PRI (1986–1988) The PRD has its origins with the leftist members of the PRI, Institutional Revolutionary Party. The PRI had dominated Mexican politics since its founding in 1929. In 1986, a group of PRI members – including Ifigen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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