Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion form Coldplay, a British alternative rock band that was formed in London in 1997. Being one of the world´s most popular bands, it is interesting to know that Coldplay’s lead vocalist, Chris Martin has very strong feelings for Mexico, which inspired the band in their last album’s name and led the group to close their Viva la Vida tour in Mexico.
Coldplay’s last album, Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends, is named after one of Frida Kahlo’s most …

As surprising as it may seem, chewing gum or chicle is a worldwide popular product that resulted from the friendship of former Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and the American scientist and inventor, Thomas Adams.
Santa Anna was a Mexican political leader, general and was President on eleven non-consecutive occasions, who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government. He lived in exile in the USA and other countries.
It was during the time he lived in the USA that he met Thomas Adams, who later became his assistant. …

Mexican Health Secretary José Angel Córdova Villalobos was invested as Knight of the Légion d´honneur at the Elysée Palace by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his role in the control of the A(H1N1) flu crisis.
The Légion d’honneur or Ordre National de la Légion d’honneur or National Order of the Legion of Honour” is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the First Republic, on May 19th 1802. The Order is the highest decoration in France and is awarded for excellent civil or military conduct delivered, upon official …

According to The Heritage Foundations Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico is currently ranked in number 41 within the 183 countries analysed for the different aspects that constitute economic freedom. On a scale of 0 to 100 Mexico scored 63.2 with an improvement last year of 2.5 points, which ranks Mexico on world´s top 22%.
The Index of Economic Freedom has ten component scores and Mexico is this year among those who have improved the most. It ranks above the BRICs, just five places behind Spain, and instead 23 places above France, …

Tibor R. Machan, researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, titled one of his books “Generosity: A Virtue in Civil Society”. Today, though in front of a terrible human tragedy, the world is genuinely showing what thousands of years of evolution and civilization could proudly account for. Empathy and generosity throughout the world shine in Haiti’s obscure times.
Among all this generosity, Mexico stands apart. According to Reliefweb data published by The Guardian, Mexico occupies the 7th place among donations sent by countries worldwide- not agencies- to Haiti´s earthquake relief. …

On January 8, 1910 Alberto Braniff took off for the first flight ever in Mexico and LatinAmerica. His plane, the “Voisin”, built by Gabriel Voisin in Paris, took off from the Balbuena plains near Mexico City and flew for 1.5 kms, reaching a velocity of 56 kms an hour and the dizzy height of 25 mts. A year later, Mexican President Francisco I. Madero became the first world’s Chief of State to fly on an airplane.  Charles Lindbergh flew for the first time over Mexican territory on 1927, and it …