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Events relating to mexico
An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City
Syntex, a small chemical company in Mexico City, develops the first oral contraceptive
Communist activist Fidel Castro returns from Mexico to Cuba to organize guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime
Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico
20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico
Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government
Two leading members of Mexico's ruling party, Luis Donaldo Colosio and José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, are assassinated
A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market
Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, loses control of the lower house for the first time in nearly seventy years
Vicente Fox wins the presidential election in Mexico (the first time that an opposition politician has done so since 1911)
The World Health Organization declares that "swine flu" (strain H1N1, spreading from Mexico), has reached the status of a pandemic
An explosion destroys BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing eleven people and starting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
BP announces that a newly fitted cap has finally stopped the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto succeeds Felipe Calderón as president of Mexico
Coastal regions of Mexico are devastated simultaneously by Hurricane Ingrid from the Pacific and Tropical Storm Manuel from the Gulf of Mexico
