However, new research suggests that the jungle-covered site may once have been conquered by another Mesoamerican superpower from central Mexico. Describing this event – known as the Entrada ...

This is the first in a two-part series on Central America’s history and present, featuring scholars Hilary Goodfriend and ...

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The Ephemeral Habsburg Empire in Mexico. In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maxi ...

(Alex Bowie / Getty Images) Central America won independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, spent two years as part of the Mexican Empire, and then nearly two decades as a fragmented federal ...

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