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Something to celebrate: A future woman president of Mexico

May 28 & 29, 2024. Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado spoke to the LA Times about national elections in Mexico on June 2, and was interviewed by Spectrum News. "Por primera vez una mujer será la presidenta de México, eso es algo histórico y es un avance democrático; hay que celebrar ese hecho ... [Estas elecciones son ]un plebiscito sobre el trabajo que ha hecho Andrés Manuel López Obrador en este sexenio, es decir si la gente quiere que continúe Morena con sus propuestas o quiere algún cambio".

The UCLA team behind the Digital Florentine Codex

UCLA Magazine delves into the team of UCLA alumni and professors who played an instrumental role in creating the Getty Digital Florentine Codex. The entire 16th-century encyclopedia of Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture is now easily accessible worldwide for the first time in its history.

Newly digitized Florentine Codex reveals Aztec culture, language

Scholars from the UCLA Latin American Institute are celebrating Getty's release of the digital version of the Florentine Codex, an unparalleled repository of 16th-century Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture.

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