Voices of Mexico no. 00

Presentation

The peoples of Mexicoo and the United States together share a huge territory. We are inter-connected in amultitude olways. yet we hardly know each other. This is so because we have such different histories Mexicans are the descendants of the Mesoamerican and Hispanic civilizations. The Indian was used with the European lover the course of several centuries of colonial domination that began with a violent and rapid mi1itary conquest in which the vast majority of our native peoples were bound is slavery and servitude. With this heritage. We developed very diferent forms of organization and social relations that those developed in the United States