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1956
 
    
Communist activist Fidel Castro returns from Mexico to Cuba to organize guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime    See in Google maps   
1957
 
    
Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico       
1960
 
    
20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey       
1992
 
    
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico       
1994
 
   
Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government      
1994
 
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Two leading members of Mexico's ruling party, Luis Donaldo Colosio and José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, are assassinated       
1994
 
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A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market     
1997
 
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Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, loses control of the lower house for the first time in nearly seventy years      
2000
 
    
Vicente Fox wins the presidential election in Mexico (the first time that an opposition politician has done so since 1911)       
2009   June 11
 
    
The World Health Organization declares that "swine flu" (strain H1N1, spreading from Mexico), has reached the status of a pandemic