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Restaging the meeting between Moctezuma and Hernán Cortés, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires explores how little we still know about this moment in history.

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The Aug. 13, 2021, edition of The New York Times failed to mention the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, the erstwhile Aztec capital out

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For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in “You Dreamed of Empires.”

Narrow, windy, and flat, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was always a contender for the shortest, and fastest, transit route between the Atlantic and Pacific.  Going back to Hernan Cortés, dreamers and schemers considered the possibility of digging a canal.  Technically impossible until the 19th century (the Suez Canal is a few meters longer than the…

Everything old is new again. Or, maybe being the last day of 2023, I should say, "Ring out the new, ring in the old". This year, and in 2024, it's not new highways that the politicans promise, but railroads... and they're delivering.  As early as the 1830s, there were proposals to build rail service, although... between the…

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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (Yes, I know I got carried away on this... and tried to cram too much in. Think of it as a draft for something more formal and scholarly). History" with a capital "H" ...…

The Aztec Death Whistle makes a sound thats somewhere between a woman howling in pain, a spooky gust of whistling wind and the scream of a thousand corpses.