Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico,as well as the most populous city in North America,and is one of the country's 32 federal entities. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world. It is located in the Valley of Mexico,a large valley in the high plateaus in the center of Mexico,at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). The city has 16 demarcaciones territoriales,subdivisions colloquially known as alcaldías or boroughs.
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be described as the northern subcontinent of a single continent called America. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean,to the east by the Atlantic Ocean,to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea,and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Tectonic Plate,Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically.
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains,sharing the Four Corners region of the western U.S. with Utah,Colorado,and Arizona,and bordering Texas to the east and southeast,Oklahoma to the northeast,and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. The state capital is Santa Fe,which is the oldest capital in the U.S.,founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain;the largest city is Albuquerque.
Albuquerque,abbreviated as ABQ,is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames,The Duke City and Burque,both reference its 1706 founding by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés as La Villa de Alburquerque. Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain,the 10th Duke of Alburquerque,the city was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. The 2020 census found the population of the city to be 564,559,making Albuquerque the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth-largest in the Southwest. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area,which had 916,528 residents as of July 2020.
The Day of the Dead is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2,though other days,such as October 31 or November 6,may be included depending on the locality. It largely originated in Mexico,where it is mostly observed,but also in other places,especially by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. Although associated with the Western Christian Allhallowtide observances of All Hallow's Eve,All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day,it has a much less solemn tone and is portrayed as a holiday of joyful celebration rather than mourning. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and to remember friends and family members who have died. These celebrations can take a humorous tone,as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.
Mexico City International Airport;officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez is the main international airport serving Greater Mexico City,since 2022 together with the much smaller Felipe Ángeles International Airport ("AIFA").. It is Mexico's and Latin America's busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements,and the 33rd busiest in the world. The airport sustains 35,000 jobs directly and around 15,000 indirectly in the immediate area. The airport is owned by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México and operated by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares,the government-owned corporation,which also operates 22 other airports throughout Mexico.
The 1986 FIFA World Cup,the 13th FIFA World Cup,was a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams,held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but,largely due to economic reasons,was not able to do so,and resigned in 1982. Mexico was selected as the new host in May 1983,and became the first country to host the World Cup more than once.
Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican heritage. In 2019,Mexican Americans comprised 11.3% of the US population and 61.5% of all Latino Americans. In 2019,71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United States,though they make up 53% of the total population of foreign-born Latino Americans and 25% of the total foreign-born population. The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world,second only to Mexico itself. Most Mexican Americans reside in the Southwest. Many Mexican Americans living in the United States have assimilated into American culture which has made some become less connected with their culture of birth and sometimes creates an identity crisis.
The United States men's national soccer team (USMNT) represents the United States in men's international soccer competitions. The team is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and is a member of FIFA and CONCACAF.
The Mexico national football team represents Mexico in international football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation. It competes as a member of CONCACAF.
Club de Fútbol América S.A. de C.V.,commonly known as Club América or simply América,is a professional football club based in Mexico City,Mexico. Nicknamed Las Águilas,it competes in Liga MX,the top tier of Mexican football. The club was founded in 1916,and since 1959 has been owned by media company Televisa. The team plays its home games at the Estadio Azteca,the largest stadium in Latin America,and one of the largest stadiums in the world.
The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent armed forces of Mexico. The actual naval forces are called the Armada de México. The Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR) includes both the Armada itself and the attached ministerial and civil service. The commander of the Navy is the Secretary of the Navy,who is both a cabinet minister and a career naval officer.
Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña,commonly referred to as Memo,is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga MX club América whom he captains,and the Mexico national team.
Mexico,officially the United Mexican States,is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States;to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean;to the southeast by Guatemala,Belize,and the Caribbean Sea;and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers 1,972,550 square kilometers (761,610 sq mi),making it the world's 13th-largest country by area;with approximately 126,014,024 inhabitants,it is the 10th-most-populous country and has the most Spanish-speakers. Mexico is organized as a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City,its capital and largest metropolis. Other major urban areas include Guadalajara,Monterrey,Puebla,Toluca,Tijuana,Ciudad Juárez,and León.
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera,commonly known as "El Chapo" because of his 168 cm stature,is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel,an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
The Mexican drug war is an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military began to intervene in 2006,the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence. The Mexican government has asserted that their primary focus is dismantling the cartels,and preventing drug trafficking demand along with U.S. functionaries. Therefore,the conflict has been described as the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs,as led by the U.S. federal government.
The CONCACAF Champions League,known officially as the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons,is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONCACAF. The winner of the CONCACAF Champions League automatically qualifies for the quarter-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup. The competition has been completed 57 times through the 2022 event,with 59 champions,due to a three-way shared title in the 1978 competition.
The Sinaloa Cartel,also known as the CDS,the Guzmán-Loera Organization,the Pacific Cartel,the Federation and the Blood Alliance,is a large international drug trafficking,money laundering,and organized crime syndicate established in Mexico during the late 1980s as one of a various number of "plazas" operating under a predecessor organization known as the Guadalajara Cartel. It is currently headed by Ismael Zambada García and is based in the city of Culiacán,Sinaloa,with operations in many world regions but primarily in the Mexican states of Sinaloa,Baja California,Durango,Sonora,and Chihuahua. It also has a notable presence in a number of other regions in Latin America,such as Colombia;as well as in cities across the U.S. The United States Intelligence Community generally considers the Sinaloa Cartel to be the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere,making it perhaps even more influential and capable than the infamous Medellín Cartel of Colombia was during its prime. It has repeatedly been said to be one of the strongest criminal organizations in the world and indisputably the most powerful in Mexico since at least the late 2000s and early 2010s by various sources including the Los Angeles Times.
Club Deportivo Guadalajara;often simply known as Guadalajara and their nickname Chivas,is a Mexican professional football club based in Zapopan,Jalisco. Guadalajara is one of the ten founding members of the Mexican First Division and along with Club América is one of only two teams that have never been relegated to the second-tier division.
Cinco de Mayo is a yearly celebration held on May 5,which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862,led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. The victory of a smaller,poorly equipped Mexican force against the larger and better-armed French army was a morale boost for the Mexicans. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness,and a larger French force ultimately defeated the Mexican army at the Second Battle of Puebla and occupied Mexico City.
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