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Paso del Norte is a modern opera composed by Mexican Víctor Rasgado.The work is based on a play, which in turn is based on the real story of a group of migrants who become trapped in a train car on their way to the United States, with all but one succumbing to suffocation.
Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Crónicas del Reino de Chile, Madrid, Atlas, 1960, pp. 227–562; Biblioteca de Autores Españoles; pp. 569–575; online edition (in Spanish) Diego de Rosales, Historia general de el Reyno de Chile, el Flandes Indiano (General History of the Kingdom of Chile, the Indian Flanders). Valparaíso, 1877–1878, 3 Vols.
By 1659 Piro Indians had begun settling in the area of Paso del Norte. The Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe was established by Fray García for them. This mission became the southernmost of the New Mexico chain of missions along El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe. The original structure remains as a side chapel of the Cathedral of ...
More than 40 years after director Gregory Nava developed the story at the Sundance Institute, "El Norte" screens at this year's festival. Decades later, 'El Norte' returns to its Sundance roots ...
Paso del Norte may refer to: El Paso–Juárez-Las Cruces, a binational metropolitan area; El Paso, Texas, which grew from a small village called El Paso del Norte; Paso del Norte, the name until 1888 of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Hotel Paso del Norte, a historic hotel in El Paso, Texas; Paso del Norte Health Foundation, an organization in El Paso ...
Ramón Ortiz y Miera (commonly Padre Ramón Ortiz) (28 January 1814 [a] – 11 March 1896) was a Mexican priest who helped organize armed resistance during the Mexican–American War of 1846 to 1848, and who was frustrated by the U.S. authorities in his efforts to repatriate Hispanic residents from New Mexico to the republic of Mexico after the war.
Hotel Paso del Norte is a historic 351-room hotel. It is located in El Paso, Texas, less than one mile north of the international border with Mexico. The hotel originally opened on Thanksgiving Day 1912, and was designed by Trost & Trost. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1979. It recently ...