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...centre of Mexican political power going back to Aztec times. After the revolution, the palace housed the president, the cabinet and various government bureaucracies. Rivera painted his mural between 1929 and 1935, during the period when Plutarco Elías Calles was the ‘Strong Man’ in Mexican politics. Like his predecessor Álvaro Obregón, who was the first president...

...children sucking it like sugar. This habit is very different from that of the Spanish Gauchos, who, leading the same kind of life, eat scarcely any; according to Mungo Park, it is people who live on vegetable food who have an unconquerable desire for salt. The Indians gave us good-humoured nods as they passed at full gallop, driving before them a troop of horses, and...

...children and produced a document with a list of necessary behaviours to be adhered to on her part. This list outlined that she should fulfil household duties such as the laundry, cooking my meals and tidying my study as required. She should also understand that, due to my busy academic schedule, she would not receive my company in public, she would not expect intimacy and...