This year marks the 700th anniversary of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The city's government prepared an extensive program of celebrations to honor these seven centuries. The peak of these ...

When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes arrived in the city of Tenochtitlan, in what is now Mexico City, the Mexican empire was ruled by the Tlatoani Moctezuma II or Moctezuma Xocoyotzin.

It was in this area that Cortes was received before entering the great city of Tenochtitlan. The stop of the Spaniards and their allies in this city was not a fortuitous event. In itself ...