Goals Quote by Eduardo Galeano

“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered…

— Patrick Marnham

“Each of us carries his Mexico and his United States within him, a dark and bloody frontier we dare to cross only at night.”

— Carlos Fuentes

I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness…

— Laila Lalami

“The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars to us would be today. The shock must have…

— Carlos Fuentes

“They believed that if America followed the ways of God, it would become the most blessed, the most prosperous, and the most powerful civilization…

— Jonathan Cahn

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

— Walt Whitman

“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they…

— John Steinbeck

“Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos! (Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!)”

— Porfirio Diaz

“First perfected by Cortés in Mexico, it was based on the observation that the best way for the Spanish to subdue opposition was to…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in movement, whereas…

— Carlos Fuentes

“That's what people say about Mexico," Morgan said, "a death culture, the Indians and their blood sacrifices mixed with all the Moorish-Christianity of the…

— Janet Hobhouse