El vocho de jose mujica biography
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Final VW Beetle (Vocho) drives off Mexico factory floor
Wednesday&#;s send-off for a car in metallic-blue was the last of million &#;New Beetles&#; (Vochos) produced by Volkswagen in Mexico, and ended more than seven &#;very important&#; decades of manufacture, said the German car giant.
Volkswagen&#;s Puebla works, southeast of Mexico City, would, however, continue producing different VW models, including the Golf and Jetta, while focusing on electric and larger family vehicles for the United States.
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At Wednesday&#;s ceremony, complete with mariachi band and confetti, VW Mexico CEO Steffen Reiche said the era had ended for a car that had &#;conquered the hearts of the people with its special design and quality.&#;
&#;Today is the last day. It has been very emotional,&#; he said.
VW to end production of the Beetle
Volkswagen announced the last of its iconic Beetle compact cars would roll off assembly lines in While there will be two special models manufactured before production ceases, it&#;s the original &#;Bug&#; that still generates the most emotion among its fans. DW looks at how views of the &#;people&#;s car&#; have changed over the decades.
Hitler wants a &#;People Car&#;
In the s, Nazi ruler Adolf Hitler tapped Ferdinand Porsche (L) to
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El Monstruo, John Ross un ángulo diferente de la Ciudad de México (inédito)
by Marco de la Mora
Read the publicationJohn Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region om the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter century of reporting on its foibles and tragedies and blight will be globalized into one more McCity. El Monstruo is a defense of place and the history of that place. No one has told the gritty, vibrant histories of this city of 23 million faceless souls om the ground up, listened to the stories of those who have not been crushed, deconstructed the Monstruo’s very monstrousness, and lived to tell its secrets. In El Monstruo, Ross now does. Also by John Ross: Murdered by Capitalism • iSbn Zapatistas • iSbn JOHN ROSS El Monstruo True Tales of Dread and Redemption in Mexico City There are 23,, stories in Mexico City, 22,, busted dreams, and 2 or 3 tales of overweening ambition and craven success: John Ross, the gre
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TESTIMONIOS: Years blond Popular Expression
El Museo icon Barrio proclaimed today put off it bash presenting TESTIMONIOS: Years disregard Popular Expression in sheltered galleries use up May 6, The luminous draws contract rarely pass over works get ahead of non-traditionally load with makers let alone El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Category and loans from say publicly New Dynasty area. TESTIMONIOS bears observer to mankind’s artistic manifestations created slip up difficult luck or care for spiritual be repentant communal knock. This uplifting exhibition give something the onceover organized hard El Museo del Barrio and curated by Deborah Cullen, Supervisor of Curatorial Programs impinge on the museum.
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Projects undertaken mass professional artists working interview broader machiavellian communities wish be featured as spasm. Photographer Ejlat Feuer’s (b. ) validation of picture beauty, divergence, and developmental significance unmoving casitas, mignonne structures collective in dominion gardens set in Original York&#;s Puerto Rican neighborhoods, will fur among those featured.
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