Baja California,officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California,is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952,the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 km2 (27,071 sq mi) and comprises the northern half of the Baja California Peninsula,north of the 28th parallel,plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean;on the east by Sonora,the U.S. state of Arizona,and the Gulf of California;on the north by the U.S. state of California;and on the south by Baja California Sur.
Baja California Sur,officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur,is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal entities which comprise the 31 States of Mexico. It is also the ninth-largest Mexican state in terms of area.
The National Action Party is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. The party is one of the main political parties in Mexico,and since the 1980s has had success winning local,state,and national elections.
La Paz is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The city had a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants,making it the most populous city in the state. It is in La Paz Municipality,which is the fourth-largest municipality in Mexico in geographical size and reported a population of 292,241 inhabitants on a land area of 20,275 km2 (7,828 sq mi).
María Lilly del Carmen Téllez García,professionally known as Lilly Téllez,is a Mexican senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the state of Sonora. She previously worked as a journalist for television broadcaster TV Azteca.
Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin,first found in Castile,Spain,but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese,the word means "cross",either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways. For example,in the Philippines,the adopted Tagalog word is rendered to "krus" in plain usage,but the Spanish spelling survives as a surname.
Eugenio Elorduy Walther was a Mexican politician. He was governor of his adoptive state of Baja California from November 1,2001 to October 31,2007. His wife Elena Blackaller served as first lady.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) rights in Mexico expanded in the 21st century,keeping with worldwide legal trends. The intellectual influence of the French Revolution and the brief French occupation of Mexico (1862–67) resulted in the adoption of the Napoleonic Code,which decriminalized same-sex sexual acts in 1871. Laws against public immorality or indecency,however,have been used to prosecute persons who engage in them.
Same-sex marriage is legally recognized and performed throughout Mexico since 31 December 2022. On 10 August 2010 the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled that same-sex marriages performed anywhere within Mexico must be recognized by the 31 states without exception,and fundamental spousal rights except for adoption have also applied to same-sex couples across the country.
JoséAntonio Roméu was sixth Spanish governor of Alta California,from 1791 to 1792.
This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.
Miss Bala is a 2011 Mexican action thriller film written by Gerardo Naranjo with Mauricio Katz and directed by Gerardo Naranjo. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards,but it did not make the final shortlist. An American remake was made in 2019.
Herlinda Sánchez Laurel was a Mexican artist and art professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her career has been recognized by membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana,and awards from the state of Baja California,the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the International Coordination of Women in Art among others.
Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío is a Mexican politician currently affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement. He is the governor of Baja California Sur.
Rosa Delia Cota Montaño is a Mexican politician.
Miss Bala is a 2019 action thriller film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer,based on the 2011 Mexican film of the same name. The film stars Gina Rodriguez,Ismael Cruz Córdova,and Anthony Mackie,and follows a woman who trains to take down a Mexican drug cartel after her friend is kidnapped.
Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda is a Mexican lawyer,politician,and member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) political party,currently serving as Governor of Baja California,she is the first woman as governor. She was formerly a Federal Representative for Baja California's 2nd electoral district at the LXIV Legislature in the Chamber of Deputies of the General Congress of the United Mexican States,which she fulfilled from 2018 to 2019,also the first woman as Mayor of Mexicali,from 2019 to 2021.
Araceli Niño López is Mexican politician representing the National Action Party (PAN). A doctor by profession,she served in the XIV Legislature of the Congress of Baja California Sur from 2015 to 2018.
María Guadalupe Saldaña Cisneros is a Mexican politician,a member of the National Action Party. Since September 1,2018 she has been a senator of the Republic in the LXIV legislature representing the state of Baja California Sur.
