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Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, S.C.L. is a cement company in Mexico.It was founded in 1881 by a British businessman named Henry Gibbon. [1]On 22 May 1927, the company's workers organized Club Deportivo Cruz Azul football club as a company team, which has gone on to become one of the most famous association football teams in Mexico, winning several national and international titles. [2]
Red UNO de Bolivia (literally "Network One", commonly referred to as Red UNO and occasionally also called simply UNO, UNO being the initials of Unión Nacional de Organizaciones Televisivas, [1] "National Union of Television Organizations") is a national Bolivian television network owned by conservative [2] businessman Ivo Kuljis, [3] a businessman of Croatian origin, [4] who also owns other ...
Puerto La Cruz is the terminus of the 145 km (90 mi) Carapito-Puerto la Cruz oil pipeline, the 155 km (96 mi) San Joaquin-Puerto la Cruz oil pipeline and the 184 km (114 mi) Anaco-Puerto la Cruz gas pipeline. [1] The city is the gateway to a large national park. The beaches of Mochima National Park surround the city. Places such as Isla de ...
Undated photograph. Juan José de la Cruz Salvo y Poblete (Santiago; c. 1842 — c. 1917) was a Chilean soldier who fought in the War of the Pacific as a Sergeant major.He is best known for being the envoy sent by the Chilean Army to the headquarters of Francisco Bolognesi's garrison in Arica to request his surrender after the allied defeat at the Battle of Tacna, to which Bolognesi replied by ...
Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza (born 1 January 1979 [1] in Santa María Quiegolani, Oaxaca) is a Zapotec activist for gender equality and the rights of indigenous women and communities. In November 2010 she became the first indigenous woman in Oaxacan politics, assuming the position of deputy of the National Action Party and president of the board of ...
The Departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Quindío, and Risaralda, and the municipality of Funza, diocese of Facatativá, have a large population of Basque descent, who carry on the tradition of the Día de la Santa Cruz ("Day of the Holy Cross") or Día de los Mil Jesuses ("Day of the Thousand Jesuses") on 3 May. People speak the name of Jesus one ...
Veracruz, [a] formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, [b] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, [c] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
Santa Cruz (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsanta ˈkɾus]) is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of 370,621 km 2 (143,098 sq mi), it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana .