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The Battle of Tepatitlán was fought on April 19, 1929, at Tepatitlán in the state of Jalisco between the Cristeros and the army of the Mexican government. The government army was composed of 500 soldiers and 4,000 militia.
The Monument for the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla is a public park and memorial designed by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos, located in the city of Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. The project was completed during 2011–2012, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla .
The Battle of Guadalajara (1858) took place on 14 December 1858 in the vicinity of La Hacienda de Atequiza, near the city of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, during Reform War. [1] Between elements of the liberal army, under General Santos Degollado , and elements of the conservative army commanded by Generals Miguel Miramón ...
The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.
Map of Mexico with Puebla highlighted. Puebla is a state in central Mexico that is divided into 217 municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the fifth most populated state with 6,583,278 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 34,309.6 square kilometres (13,247.0 sq mi).
The Jalisco attorney general, Luis Carlos Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco, said that twenty-nine vehicles and thirty-one houses in the neighborhood were damaged by the gunfire. [44] Seven of the twenty-nine vehicles damaged were owned by the National Gendarmerie, seventeen were owned by civilians, two were motorcycles, and three had allegedly ...
The 2017 Puebla earthquake, also known as 19S, struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with an estimated magnitude of 7.1 M w and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicenter was about 55 km (34 mi) south of the city of Puebla , Mexico .
Most of the streets in Puebla are named on a numbering system, which centers on the northwest corner of the Zocalo. [3] There are four statues of muses installed at each corner of the plaza. Jan Hendrix's sculpture, Kiosko, is installed in the plaza, along with the Monumento al Sitio de Puebla and Puebla de los Ángeles. [4]