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Top economist says companies are close to a 'Cortes moment' on AI, referencing the conquistador who burned his boats and then invaded Mexico

Moody’s Analytics chief economist warned firms are approaching the point of no return on AI adoption—and the labor market may feel it first.

Fortune

The Aztec empire’s collapse shows why ruling through coercion and force fails

When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.

The Conversation

Does BBC Civilisations get its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a combination of recreated dramatic scenes, explanation from experts and discussions of objects from the British Museum. Here, four experts in…

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Woman long blamed for the fall of Aztec empire is now being viewed in a different light

She’s long be blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire. But Malinche is getting a re-brand

The Independent UK

FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico

US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico’s archives for decades

The Guardian - US

Inside the search to find missing Hernán Cortés document

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The Independent UK

Hernán Cortés manuscript stolen from Mexico’s archives returned after several decades

The FBI assisted in the search for the missing document believed to have been stolen between 1985 and 1993

The Independent UK

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Hospital founded by Spanish conqueror persists 500 years later in Mexico's capital

The Hospital de Jesus in Mexico City’s bustling historic center covers most of a city block

The Independent UK

Five of the best translated fiction of 2024

An indigenous epic, macabre short stories from Spain, Aztec adventures and more

The Guardian - UK

Fallen ancient civilizations show us why we must not ignore climate warnings

In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor Suppiluliuma II: “My father behold, the enemy’s ships have come; my cities were burned, and they did evil things in my country.” Soon, both the Hittite and Ugaritic kingdoms…

The Conversation

Nacho Cano, ex Mecano, arrested in Madrid for alleged hiring undocumented immigrants in his latest musical

The Spanish theatrical producer and artist was detained by the National Police. The case is regarding the hiring for his play "Maliche," which tells the story between Hernán Cortés and the Mexican slave

Latin Times

Mysterious skeleton found in Hernán Cortés' palace revealed to be Indigenous woman, not Spanish monk

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought.

LiveScience

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – colonialism as a bloody heist comedy

The Mexican writer’s imaginative riff on the conquest of the Aztecs is an enigmatic, drily funny farce

The Guardian - UK

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – the birth of Mexico

Real events are compressed into one extraordinary day as Spanish conquistadors penetrate the heart of Aztec civilisation, in a novel of hallucinatory vividness

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Contaminations, revisions, reinventions: how cultures, ancient and modern, have influenced each other

Martin Puchner’s Culture: A New World History examines “the history of humans as a culture-producing species”. At the core of this statement lies the humanities, which emerges as a collective discipline “through a desire to revive a newly recovered past – more than once”.

The Conversation

Diseases gave us the rise of Christianity, the end of the Aztecs and public sanitation. How might future plagues change human history?

“Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history.” So began the blurb that came with this book. Aha! I thought. The usual advertising hyperbole, a gross…

The Independent UK

New exhibit explores significance of Mexica's lunar goddess

A new exhibit hosted by Museum of Templo Mayor in Mexico City marks the 45th anniversary of the discovery of a monolith depicting the Mexican lunar goddess, Coyolxauhqui (pronounced Koy-ol-shauw-kee)

The Guardian - UK

On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock review – a whole new world

In a reversal of traditional historical accounts, Dodds Pennock tells the story of indigenous Americans’ first steps in Europe

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Commentary: COVID-19 will cause long-term devastation to our society on many fronts

Halloween is over; Christmas beckons. “Monster Mash” is out; “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is in. Feel-good movies have replaced seasonal zombie and vampire flicks. In the U.S., our real-life zombie movie is called COVID-19, and it has caused more than 1 million deaths. Along with that, there…

The Guardian - UK

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths review – Iñárritu’s outrageously narcissistic existential crisis

Venice film festival: A film-maker returns home to Mexico to face his memories in a spectacular and staggeringly self-indulgent surreal epic

WEKU

La Malinche was a young linguist forced to serve the Spanish conquerors

Her complex legacy after 500 years as a survivor and, to some, a traitor is explored in festivals and a major museum exhibition.

Los Angeles Times

She's been branded a traitor. A new exhibition says Mexican icon Malinche was anything but

DENVER — Though he may be renowned for lobbing vulgar insults, the barb that Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva directed at Supervisor Hilda Solis in July 2020 left even longtime observers stunned. Solís had made comments critical of systemic racism by police toward people of color. "Are you trying,"…

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