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  Introduction. Aguascalientes
The coat-of-arms of Aguascalientes has a fountain, a caldron and coals which represent one of the main features of its territory: hot springs.
Aguascalientes is one of the 31 states of the Mexican Republic.
The city of Aguascalientes, its capital, is the largest in the state.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/explora/html/aguasc   (184 words)

  
 Aguascalientes - aguascalientes mexico
Aguascalientes is the name of both a state of Mexico and that state's capital city.
Aguascalientes (a Spanish name meaning "hot waters" for the abundance of hot springs in the area; so the corresponding adjective for calvillo aguascalientes travel the state and its inhabitants is the whimsical hidrocálido) aguascalientes map is a state of Mexico, situated in the center of the country.
This tradition aguascalientes mexico map ceased gradually for it proved unreliable since in Mexico the culture of wine does not have strong aguascalientes mexico+resturants roots.
www.meteoroloo.com /Met-North-America-A---Ce/Aguascalientes.html   (486 words)

  
 Puerto Vallarta - Mexico Magico - PVMirror.com E-Newspaper
Indigenous Municipality and Municipal Seat: Where both the municipality and its seat are indigenous and there are no dispersed or settlements as defined by the census.
Indigenous Municipality and Communities: Where the municipality consists of communities or settlements indigenous in the majority of population.
Municipalities with a non-Indigenous center and with peripheral Indigenous Communities where the seat of the municipality consists of a mestizo majority and the communities are essentially indigenous.
www.pvmirror.com /mexicomagico/indig3.html   (610 words)

  
 State - Municipalities.Aguascalientes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Aguascalientes is a municipality that still conserves the vestiges from its 400 year old history.
The name "Aguascalientes" was given due to the abundance of thermal waters in the area.
Aguascalientes was named "a free and sovereign state" by the Constitution of 1857.
www.aguascalientes.gob.mx /idiomas/ingles/state/Aguas.aspx   (415 words)

  
 State of Aguascalientes, Mexico
Aguascalientes, one of Mexico's smallest states, is located in the high central plain, bordered by the states of Zacatecas and Jalisco.
Aguascalientes boasts of it's own style of mole and regional dishes such as nopales (prickly pear cactus) with beans, and tasty enchiladas rojas (enchiladas in red sauce).
Aguascalientes is also a strong producer of grapes and therefore of wine, brandy and sweet liqueurs, as well as sweets made of locally-grown fruits and vegetables.
www.surf-mexico.com /states/Ags/index.html   (422 words)

  
 State of Aguascalientes - Governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1998 he was named candidate to the president of the Municipalities of Aguascalientes and on August 2nd of that same year he defeated his political opponents and ratified.
One of the maximum accomplishments referring to Financial was the setting of the certificate of Municipality public work in the Bolsa Mexicana de valores, becoming in the first municipal government of the country in quote in the stock market.
Furthermore, on August 6th Emilio Azcaraga President of Televisa, inaugurated with Luis Armando Reynoso the country club of Necaxa that is located at the west of the city, it has an extension of 8 hectares and it has grand facilities that guarantee the excellent mental and physical preparation of the players.
www.aguascalientes.gob.mx /idiomas/ingles/state/Governors.aspx   (506 words)

  
 The delegates have begun to gather   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Aguascalientes of Morelia: The states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Queretaro and Hidalgo.
Aguascalientes of La Garrucha: The states of Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes and San Luis Potosi.
Aguascalientes of La Realidad: The states of Puebla, Morelos, Tlaxcala, State of Mexico and the Federal District delegations.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/ezln/1999/ccri_del_gather_mar99.html   (370 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary: From Aguascalientes to Caracoles
These municipalities managed to provide not only better basic services (health, education, culture, infrastructure) than the Mexican state ever had, but they did so in spite of violent opposition by the (US-backed) state and the paramilitary auxiliaries it employed.
The democratic decision-making processes within the municipalities, as well as the way they invited and accepted the help of outsiders willing to share genuine solidarity, were examples from which movements all over the world tried to learn.
It was therefore a surprise for many when the Zapatistas announced the 'death' of the Autonomous Municipalities, scheduled for August 8, 2003, to be followed by a 'birth' of something new on August 9-all of which was to coincide with a big party.
www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2003-09/12podur.cfm   (1245 words)

  
 Aguascalientes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only a few wineries and wineyards remained producing, and mostly to supply wine for the Catholic religious institutions that still demand the product since it is consumed in small quantities during mass.
In addition, the haciendas and baths around the state hold historic and recreational importance.
The city of Aguascalients is called "el corazon" which means "the heart" of Mexico because it lies in the middle of the state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aguascalientes   (931 words)

  
 The history of the rebel zapatista Autonomous Municipalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Autonomous Municipalities themselves have directly communicated their denuncias, requests, agreements, "twinnings" (not a few rebel zapatista Autonomous Municipalities maintain relationships with municipalities in other countries, primarily in Italy).
The problems of the autonomous authorities, in the period which is now over, can be divided into two types: those having to do with their relationship with national and international civil society, and those having to do with self-governance, that is, with relations with zapatista and non-zapatista communities.
Those Autonomous Municipalities which are most well known (like those which were the seats of the now defunct "Aguascalientes") or closer at hand (closer to urban centers or with highway access), have received more projects and more support.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/ezln/2003/marcos/historyJULY.html   (2743 words)

  
 americas.org - The Path of the Caracol Towards Autonomy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The MAREZ overlap the constitutional municipalities both geographically and politically, and, as a parallel structure to official policy, they make their own educational, health and legal decisions.
Their aim is for each municipality to have a small drugstore and for each community to have health promoters who can take care of illnesses.
During the last few years, autonomous municipalities have created abarrotes (small commercial centers) and cooperatives in order to generate finances for their ‘non-monetary’ projects (health and education) and in order to be more economically independent.
www.americas.org /item_19346   (2876 words)

  
 State of Aguascalientes - Visiting Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
To few kilometers of Aguascalientes these rocky elevations and will provide cycling placenteras.Los days also have their place and its event in Aguascalientes, because year to year the National Championship of Mountain Cycling or the State Championship is organized.
Its birth dates from the year 1828 that is developed in the months of May and April in the Seat San Marcos and that it summons to the tourism of the world.
The Aguascalientes freeway; Leon is combined to the Pan-American Highway Me'xico-Cuidad Juárez (45), Aguascalientes-Calvillo-Guadalajara highway (54), highway Aguascalientes-San Luis Potosí (70), Aguascalientes-Loreto-Zacatecas highway (51).The city of dista Aguascalientes 4010 km with La Paz, 504Km.
www.visitingmexico.com.mx /eng/aguascalientes/index_1.php   (403 words)

  
 Americas Program | Article | Local Transparency Still Opaque for Many Mexican Communities
As a result, especially in rural and marginalized municipalities, Mexican citizens continue to be victims of the type of official corruption and graft that the laws were created to combat.
Even after the law passed, municipal officials continued to withhold information that the new law stipulates should be made public without requiring citizens to ask for it.
A past municipal president solicited travel funds from local residents and Mexican citizens working in the United States for a trip to the United States for the purpose of purchasing an ambulance for Catorce villages.
americas.irc-online.org /articles/2005/0503localrtk.html   (3391 words)

  
 The Conflict
From mid-year on, another axis of tension was the threat of violent evictions of the communities settled in the Montes Azules Biosphere.
In April, in the municipality of Zinancantan (in the Highlands region) the Zapatistas suffered the worst violent aggression that area had seen since 1994.
On the eve of January 1, the date that the new municipal authorities took power, demonstrations were held, highways were blocked, and confrontations took place in various municipalities (Oxchuc, Tila and Sabanilla, for example).
www.sipaz.org /crono/proceng.htm   (5985 words)

  
 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Mexico: Elections and events 1996-1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The ‘municipio’ is governed by an ‘ayuntamiento,’ or council, headed by a ‘presidente municipal’ (municipal president or mayor).
Elecciones para presidentes municipales, 1971-1995 (porcentajes)." By municipality.
For municipal elections in October 1979, October 1982, October 1985, October 1988, November 1991, and November 1994 gives by municipality the registered voters, total votes, null votes, and number and percent of votes for each party.
dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/mexico/genmex.html   (6333 words)

  
 Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city and municipality of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico.
Aguascalientes organizes the largest festival held in Mexico, the San Marcos Fair, which takes place from the middle of April to the beginning of May. It receives almost 7 million visitors every year.
Aguascalientes is home to several outstanding museums and one of the country's leading provincial theatres.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aguascalientes,_Aguascalientes   (697 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
This was a landslide victory in the municipalities that concentrated 70 percent of the population of the largest border state with the United States" (page 226).
Guillén Vicente 1990: PAN is not allowed to run municipal slates in Mulejé and La Paz in Baja California Sur in the municipal elections in 1983 and its alleged victory in Comondú is not recognized, though it does win 16,000 votes, 22.3% of the vote, and two seats in the state legislative elections (page 89).
Several apparently very close municipal contests between the PRI and the PAN in...Coahuila were decided, by highly questionable procedures, in favor of the PRI.
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/mexico/1980.html   (3891 words)

  
 1917 Constitution of Mexico
The federal and state laws, within their respective jurisdictions, shall determine in what cases the occupation of private property shall be considered to be of public utility; and in accordance with such laws, the administrative authorities shall issue the respective declaration.
Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.
The Territories shall be divided into Municipalities, which shall have a land area and number of inhabitants sufficient to be able maintain themselves on their own resources and contribute to their ordinary expenditures.
www.ilstu.edu /class/hist263/docs/1917const.html   (14776 words)

  
 Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes (a Spanish name meaning "hot waters" for the abundance of hot springs in the area; so the corresponding adjective for the state and its inhabitants is the whimsical hidrocГЎlido) is a state of Mexico, situated in the center of the country.
It is mostly known for the Feria Nacional de San Marcos a national fair that takes place in the states capital but involves most fo the state.
AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico Ithaca College senior left tackle Brett Monnat helped Team USA earn a win in the Aztec Bowl Saturday night, 28-7, over a team of Mexican All-Stars in front of a crowd of 16,000.
www.governpub.com /Capitals-A/Aguascalientes.php   (760 words)

  
 Zapatistas (EZLN)
The activities and the responsibilities of each autonomous municipality are dependent on the will of their members, and on their level of consolidation.
Those who hold a position on the Municipal Council do not receive a salary for it, although their expenses should be paid by the same communities who request their presence, through cooperation among the members.
This death was the death of the "Aguascalientes".
www.affinityproject.org /groups/ezln.html   (5972 words)

  
 sandiego.indymedia.org | Mexico-The Zapatista Army and the Caracoles -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Between August 9 and 11 in Oventic, Chiapas, the history of "Aguascalientes" as a rebel territory of the EZLN ended.
The caracoles are not opposed to the formal kind of municipality which the state recognizes, because they are neither competing for representation (i.e., formal municipal representation) before the central government, nor for any of the administrative or political prerogatives (of a formal municipality).
Thus Marcos ceases to be the spokesman of the EZLN in order to become spokesman of the caracoles, and this is the clearest sign of the open intention of the EZLN leadership to go from being a military organization to being a local or regional political organization.
sandiego.indymedia.org /es/2003/09/100826.shtml   (1393 words)

  
 IRC Americas Program | Water Privatization in Latin America
The apparently independent companies that operate municipal aqueducts are for the most part subsidiaries of a half dozen transnational corporations that collude with each other and divide global markets among themselves.
Since the resulting enterprises are so small, people think that in their municipalities they are dealing with local companies without realizing that these are actually one of the thousand faces of some gigantic transnational services corporation that uses subcontracting to distance itself when social problems arise caused frequently by poor service.”
In Aguascalientes, the water system was contracted to a subsidiary of French transnational Vivendi and rates soared to among the highest in Mexico.
americas.irc-online.org /am/2885   (2445 words)

  
 'Los Caracoles' Dramatic Changes in Zapatista Structure Bolster Rebels' Regional Autonomy
Although largely displaced from public attention by international events like the War on Terror and Bush's brutal invasion of Iraq, the EZLN continues to galvanize interest, particularly among young people who were in their early teens when the rebellion exploded in the first hour of the North American Free Trade Agreement ten years ago.
The Aguascalientes at Guadalupe Tepeyac was destroyed by the military during a 1995 invasion ordered by Zedillo to capture the Zapatista leadership and take back liberated territory - but five new Aguascalientes promptly blossomed in each of the Zapatista zones of influence at La Realidad, the Ejido Morelia, Roberto Barrios, La Garrucha, and Oventic.
Mexican states are organized into municipalities, roughly equivalent to U.S. counties, and the county seats - the "cabeceras" - traditionally dominate the satellite communities where the EZLN has always had strength.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/mexico/975.html   (938 words)

  
 Peace Action Delegation to Chiapas
The attacks in the municipality of Chenalhó culminated in a bloody massacre in December 1997, when 45 unarmed men, women, and children in the village of Actéal were killed by a government-backed paramilitary group ironically called "Paz y Justicia" ("Peace and Justice").
The harsh repression of autonomous municipalities was suspended in June 1998 after 10 people were killed and the EZLN returned fire, for the first time since the January 1994 cease-fire.
The municipal president assured them that they could all come in to harvest their fields except for two "provocateurs." They were also told they would need to request permission to come back again.
www.fas.org /asmp/library/reports/Chiapas.html   (10331 words)

  
 From Aguascalientes to Caracoles (August 13, 2003)
At the entrance to the mountain village of Oventic, in the municipality of San Andres Larrainzar, visitors arriving for the event were greeted with a sign announcing, "You are in the autonomous territory in rebellion of the Zapatistas.
Another of the benefits of the Committees is to remove the unhealthy influence of the EZLN's military command structure from the civil government of the autonomous territories.
To illustrate the problem he described a pink, high-heeled shoe that arrived, without its pair, as part of an "aid package," and said the Zapatistas didn't wish to continue to be a dumping ground for broken computers and expired medicines.
eatthestate.org /07-24/FromAguascalientesto.htm   (760 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
Municipalities, state deputies (election for governor postponed to May 1995)
Governor, municipalities, state deputies (election of governor postponed from November 1983)
All material contained in Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources is protected by copyright, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of it is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form.
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/mexico/calendar.html   (240 words)

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