2013
Growing up inside a conservative family established in the city of Puebla that just survived the disaster of the Revolution, the young Joaquín Cordero had to face his parents to pursue his dreams of being an actor, an adventure that for those years was almost inconceivable. Leaning on his inseparable wife Alma Guzman, as well as his physical attractiveness and foolproof professionalism, Cordero became a leading figure in the so-called Golden Age of national cinema, and for decades a central reference for Mexican TV history, through the popular soap opera genre. An educated man, with studies in Greek and Latin classics, passionate of poetry and tango, Cordero was essentially a simple and grateful man, dedicated to a profession that from an early age separated him from his parents: the acting profession.
2013
Over a hundred years ago, the fortunate encounter of a French pilot Louis Chevrolet and an American investor William Durant marked the beginning of one of the most audacious automotive companies in the world. Devoted to the manufacture of high-performance and yet affordable cars with innovative design, Chevrolet has since become a central reference not only for the motor sport and the automotive industry, but for the lives of millions of people through generations, and for Mexicans since 1936 when Chevrolet established its first factory in the country. Nowadays, the company's leadership in the automotive world industry has been an important factor for economic development in our country.
2013
Between March and May 1863, the city of Puebla resisted, for 62 days and nights, the strength of the powerful French army. Humiliated for its defeat a year earlier at the hands of General Zaragoza, the armies of Napoleon III were about to succumb again to the heroic Mexican East Army which together with the people of Puebla gave us one of the most dignifying and dramatic episodes of Mexican history.
2013
Seventy years ago, in 1943, the so called Department of Salubrity merged with the Ministry of Social Assistance, to conform a new ministry that became the foundation of our current system of public health. Since then, intensive immunization campaigns, the introduction of healthy hygiene habits and the growth of basic medical services, reduced infectious diseases and increased life expectancy in Mexico. Today in the context of so-called "chronic degenerative diseases," the Ministry of Health organizes the government's efforts to achieve quality and equitative universal coverage, so all Mexicans, without exception, can live a productive and dignified life for themselves, their families and their country.
2013
The night of October 7, 1913, Senator Belisario Domínguez was abducted by the police officers in his room at the Hotel Jardín in downtown, Mexico City. Possessing a relentless and unwavering moral, avid critic of usurper President Victoriano Huerta, the disappearance of the Chiapas' senator outraged Mexicans and encouraged them to fight the regime of terror imposed from the presidency, even before his murder was confirmed a year later. Behind the public figure of Chiapas' senator and his brave speeches against the Huerta regime exists, however, a most endearing story, the one of a doctor with medical studies in Paris, seated humbly in his native Comitán, whose social and moral work still represents the best legacy to his countrymen.
2013
100 years ago-in 1913 - democracy embodied in the presidency of Francisco I. Madero succumbed to the violence that had characterized Mexico during the previous century. Dead by the hands of the usurper President Victoriano Huerta, Venustiano Carranza -countryman of Madero-, led a revolution whose result would be the 1917 Constitution. Madero and Carranza, not only different in character but opposite in their beliefs, played a significant role on the public life of the nation, and in the crucial year of 1913 they sowed the seed of two Mexican aspirations: democracy and legality.