Tehuacán
—  Town & Municipality  —
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Location of Tehuacán within the state of Puebla.
Location of Puebla within Mexico
Tehuacán Location of Tehuacán within the state of Puebla.
Coordinates: 18°28′N 97°24′W / 18.467°N 97.4°W / 18.467; -97.4Coordinates: 18°28′N 97°24′W / 18.467°N 97.4°W / 18.467; -97.4
Country	Mexico
State	Puebla
Government
• Municipal President	Profr. Félix Alejo Domínguez
Population (2010)Municipality
• Municipality	274,906 hab.
• Seat Density	668/km2 (1,730/sq mi)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
Postal code (of seat)
Demonym	Tehuacanense
Website	(Spanish) Municipal Official Site

Tehuacán is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Puebla, nestled in the Southeast Valley of Tehuacán, bordering the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The 2010 census reported a population of 248,716 in the city and 274,906 in its surrounding municipality of the same name, of which it serves as municipal seat. The municipality has an area of 390.36 km² (150.72 sq mi).^[1]

Originally a Native American settlement, it became officially a city in the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1660. According to the archaeologist Richard Stockton MacNeish, the Valley of Tehuacán is the first place maize was ever cultivated by humankind. He arrived at this conclusion when he found over 10,000 teoscintle cobs in what is now known as the Cave of Coxcatlan.

In the late nineteen century, the city was well known for its mineral springs. In fact, Peñafiel (now owned by Cadbury Schweppes), a well known soft drinks manufacturer, extracts water from these wells for use in their products. Tehuacán also has an important cluster of poultry producers, making the city and its surroundings one of the most important egg producing regions in Mexico.^[2]

After the NAFTA agreement had been signed, Tehuacán saw a flood of textile maquiladoras established in the city and surrounding areas. These textile factories principally put together blue jeans for export to companies such as The Gap, Guess, Old Navy, and JC Penney. At the height of the maquila (short for maquiladora) boom, there were an estimated number of more than 700 maquilas in town, including those that were operating from homes, often in secret. While this situation created a negative unemployment (zero unemployment) and the maquilas sought workers as far away as Orizaba and Córdoba in the neighboring state of Veracruz, it also created an urban and environmental nightmare. In one decade, Tehuacán went from being a town of 150,000 inhabitants to a city of 360,000. Although many maquilas have closed today, in 2007 there were still over 700 of them found in Tehuacán.^[3] Due to the poverty of the families living in Tehuacán, child labour in the maquilas is common, and worker's rights are often exploited there. Additionally, chemicals such as caustic soda, chlorine, peroxide, oxalic acid, sodium bisulphate, potassium permanganate, and sodium hexametaphosphate are being discharged into the freshwater supplies by the jean laundries. Despite having new purifying technologies available at certain large facilities, they are still not being used the majority of the time. The water, which contains heavy metals such as mercury, lead, copper, zinc, chrome, cadmium and selenium is then used by the farmers to irrigate their land. The cost of environmental deterioration in 2002 was estimated to be $63 billion per year.^[4]

Historically, the Valley of Tehuacán is important to the whole of Mexico, as the most ancient forms of cultivated maize known were found here by archeologists.

Geography[link]

Tehuacán is located in the southeastern part of the State of Puebla. Northern bordering cities are Tepanco de López, Santiago Miahuatlán, Vicente Guerrero y Nicolás Bravo; Eastern Vicente Guerrero, San Antonio Cañada y Ajalpan; Southern San Gabriel Chilac, Zapotitlán, San Antonio Texcala y Altepexi; and Western Zapotitlán, San Martín Atexcal, Juan N. Méndez y Tepanco de López.

See also[link]

• Tehuacán Valley matorral — Deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in the Valley.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tehuacán, Puebla

• Diving Destiny Circle of Blue tells the story of one Tehuacán Valley community's response to Mexico's worst water crisis in decades.
• Tehuacán municipal government Official website (Spanish)
• Tehuacán, Puebla Information Tehuacán, Puebla Information (Spanish)
• tehuacan.com.mx, El Portal de la Ciudad tehuacan.com.mx, El Portal de la Ciudad. Directorio Empresarial en Línea
• Tehuacan News Noticias al dia de Tehuacán

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Víctor Manuel San José Sánchez is a Spanish singer-songwriter. He has been married to the Spanish singer and actress Ana Belén since 1972. He and his wife are considered symbols of the Spanish Transition,^{[citation needed]} and his songs and albums often feature boldly-titled works with social and political content.

Discography[link]

• Mucho/Tus cosas (A lot/Your things)
• Un gran hombre/Lejano, lejano (A great man/far away, far away)
• Y Sorrento empezó/El pueblo/Mi música eres tú/No te lo crees ni tú (And Sorrento started/The village/You are my music/Not even you believe it)
• Primer disco/Por caridad/Ninette/Y sin embargo (1966) (The first disc/For pity's sake/Ninette/Nonetheless)
• El tren de madera/El cobarde (1968) (The wooden train/The coward)
• El mendigo/La romería (The beggar/The crowd)
• El abuelo Vítor/Paxarinos (Grandpa Vítor/Paxarinos)
• En el portalín de piedra/Ya se escuchan las panderetas (1969) (In the porch of stone/We are already listening the tambourines)
• Víctor Manuel (1970)
• Quiero abrazarte tanto (1970) (I want to hug you so much)
• Dáme la mano (1971) (Give me your hand)
• OST "Al diablo con amor" (Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel) (1972) (To the devil with love)
• Víctor Manuel (edit in México) (1973)
• Verde (popular songs of Asturias) (1973) (Green)
• Todos tenemos un precio (1974) (We all have a price)
• Cómicos (1975) (Comedians)
• Víctor Manuel en Directo (1976) (Víctor Manuel live)
• Diez (1977) (Ten)
• Spanien (edit in the Democraty German Republic) (1977)
• Canto para todos (1978) (Song for all)
• Soy un corazón tendido al sol (1978) (I'm a heart laying in the sun)
• Luna (1979) (Moon)
• Ay amor (1981) (Oh, love)
• Por el camino (1982) (Along the way)
• Víctor y Ana en vivo (Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel) (1982) (Víctor and Ana live)
• El lanzador de cuchillos (1984) (The knife thrower)
• En directo (1985) (Live)
• Para la ternura siempre hay tiempo (1986) (There is always time for tenderness)
• Qué te puedo dar (1988) (What can I give you?)
• Tiempo de cerezas (new versions of old songs) (1989) (Time of cherries)
• El delicado olor de las violetas (1990) (The delicate smell of violets)
• A dónde irán los besos (1993) (Where do kisses go?)
• Mucho más que dos (Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel) (1994) along with 7 more singers like Joan Manuel Serrat, Miguel Ríos, Joaquín Sabina, Pablo Milanés, the former Antonio Flores, Manolo Tena and actor Juan Echanove at the Sport's Palace of Gijón, Spain. (Much more than two)
• Sin memoria (1996) (Without memory)
• Cada uno es como es (1999) (We are the way we are)
• Vivir para cantarlo (1999) (Live to sing it)
• El hijo del ferroviario (2001) (The trainman's son)
• Dos en la carretera (Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel) (2001) (Two along the road)
• El perro del garaje (2004) (The dog of the garage)
• Una canción me trajo aquí (Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel) (2006) (A song took me here)
• No hay nada mejor que escribir una canción (2008) (There is nothing better than writing a song)

Others

• En Blanco y Negro (Pablo Milanés and Víctor Manuel) (1995) (In black and white)
• El gusto es nuestro (Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel, Miguel Ríos y Joan Manuel Serrat) (1996) (Our pleasure)
• Hecho en Asturias (Nuberu, Tejedor, Mari Luz Cristóbal y Víctor Manuel. Concert directed by Ramón Prada and recorded in Oviedo, Asturies, on Asturies' Day) (2002) (Made in Asturies)
• Neruda en el corazón (Various artists) (2004) (Neruda in the heart)

Filmography[link]

• Morbo (1972) (with Ana Belén).
• Al diablo con amor (1973) (with Ana Belén).

External links[link]

• (Spanish) Oficial page
• (Spanish) Soy un corazón tendido al sol Page with forum.
• (Spanish) Cada uno es como es
• Víctor Manuel at the Internet Movie Database

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Julio Preciado y su Banda Perla de Pacifico (Julio Preciado and his Pacific Pearl Band) is a banda singer based in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. His music is based on norteño songs, such as those of Los Cadetes de Linares, and sometimes includes accordions in addition to bass instruments. Julio Preciado was a former member of La Banda el Recodo.^[1] Julio Preciado has been on a Mexican singing show called "Cantando Por Un Sueño". He also sang with the popular band La Banda Sinaloense El Recodo. On occasion, he also sings with a mariachi, as evident in the 2001 release of his CD, Entre Amigos.

On February 2, 2009 he was assigned to sing the Mexican National Anthem in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, as a part of the Opening Ceremony of the Caribbean Baseball Series (Serie del Caribe). Unfortunately he made several mistakes in the anthem lyrics and musical pace, being majorly booed by the audience.

Some factors came into play during the failure to sing the national anthem properly since the background music did not play, so he decided to improvise by singing a capella. Unfortunately, he decided to extend the improvisation. The audience's reaction caused the local sound to be shut off to protect Preciado from more serious actions by an angered public, so he could stop singing. In fact some people in the stadium assure that the singer was drunk.

Julio apologized to the audience and in a written statement hoping he will get a second chance to sing the national anthem in the future.

Before the Carnival of Mazatlan he was a serious candidate to be burned as a "burn of bad humor" (La quema del mal humor), an event that burns the people or event that represents the worst thing for the people, But since he was a diputade with license and using his influence and money in the town of Mazatlan he was saved of that "un-honor" despite he won the votes of the people of Mazatlan to be burned.

Since he was not burned in that event the people of Mazatlan towards his anger with his daughter Yuliana Preciado, during the parade where she was elected as a "Infant Queen" in the middle of corruption and scandal, the people started to sing the Mexican National Anthem loudly to her in protest

References[link]

See also[link]

• La Banda el Recodo
• El Coyote

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