A few interesting stories from Mexico this past week:
Writer and poet Andrés Henestrosa, a Zapotec Indian who defended and promoted his native language, died Thursday after a months-long battle with pneumonia. He was 101. Henestrosa, who was born in Oaxaca state and didn't learn Spanish until he was 15, wrote a Zapotec-Spanish dictionary in 1936.
A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break, so he glued his hand to his bed. Sandra Palacios spent nearly two hours Monday trying to free her son Diego's hand with water, oil and nail polish remover before calling authorities to get the industrial glue off, Police Chief Jorge Camacho said from outside Monterrey. Paramedics managed to unstick him in time for class; his hand was fine.
Scientists using improved methods of analyzing the chemistry of ancient soils have detected where a large marketplace stood 1,500 years ago in the Maya city of Chunchucmil on the Yucatan Peninsula. The findings, archaeologists say, are some of the first strong evidence that the Maya civilization, at least in places and at certain times, had a market economy similar in some respects to societies today.
(courtesy SignOnSanDiego.com)
These short headliners serve mostly to bring us up to date with current happenings in Mexico.
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