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Mexico City's first woman mayor wants car firms' help to end smog
Mexico City's first woman mayor wants car firms' help to end smog
MEXICO City’s first woman mayor plans to significantly improve air quality in the smoggy capital, one of the world’s largest cities, by consulting with car manufacturers on a plan for stricter emissions standards, she said in an interview.
Environmental scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, 56, (second left) won the election with a large margin and takes office in December.
Environmental scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, 56, who won the election with a large margin and takes office in December, said a top priority was to reduce particulate contamination by 40 percent in her six year term. The city of some 21 million people, known for its deathly smog in the 1980s, made strides towards cleaner air at the turn of the century with measures that restricted the use of older vehicles and moved major industry out of town.
While its air remains far better than smoke-choked Asian capitals such as Delhi, India, in 2016 the city government issued for the first time in 14 years an air quality contingency warning, a measure taken when pollution reaches levels that seriously threaten health.
The number of vehicles in Mexico almost doubled between 2006 and 2016, and autos are now the leading source of nitrogen oxide pollution in the metropolitan area.
Sheinbaum said part of the problem was that Mexico had fallen behind in emissions standards for new vehicles, as well as needing to find ways to bring down costs for hybrid and electric vehicles that are currently out of reach of most consumers.
“What we are proposing, and we want to do this even before we enter government, is to have a meeting ... with the major automakers,” Sheinbaum, 56, told Reuters in an interview, saying she would approach embassies of major automaking powers first.
“From there we want to generate a new standard for new vehicles, that allows new vehicles to be less and less polluting,” she said. Sheinbaum aims to pass her proposal through the national Congress before it becomes law, a task made easier because her Morena party won a majority there in the July 1 election.
However, attempts to make automobile regulation stricter in Mexico have run into opposition in the past.
Toyota and Mexico’s auto industry sued the Mexican government in 2012 to try to block proposed regulations to align the fuel efficiency standard of cars and light trucks with that of the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the
With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the
in the world, Populous Meaning In English
(NAFTA) partners, especially the United States. In 1994, Mexico became the first Latin American member of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
It is classified as an upper-middle income country by the
by several analysts. The country is considered both a
. Mexico has many tourists: in 2016, it was the eighth most-visited country in the world, with 35 million international arrivals. Mexico is a member of the
. By 2050, Mexico could potentially become the world's fifth or seventh largest economy.
dates to about 8000 BC and is identified as one of seven
the territory from its politically powerful base in
(part of Mexico City), which was administered as the
following its recognition in 1821 after the colony's
The post-independence period was tumultuous, characterized by
of the extant northern territories to the United States. The
occurred in the 19th century. The Porfiriato was ended by the start of the
in 1910, which culminated with the promulgation of the
(meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in
in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed. It was rebuilt during the following three years, after which it was designated as a municipality and capital of the vice-royalty of
was established, known as México Tenustitlan, and as of 1585 became officially known simply Ciudad de México. The name Mexico was used only to refer to the city, and later to a province within New Spain. It was not until the independence of the vice-royalty of New Spain that "Mexico" became the traditional and conventional short-form name of the country.
During the 1810s, different insurgent groups advocated and fought for the independence of the vice-royalty of New Spain. This vast territory was composed of different
and provinces, successors of the kingdoms and captaincies general administered by the vice-regal capital of
signed the document Acta Solemne de la Declaración de Independencia de la América Septentrional, ("
Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America
"). In 1814 the Supreme Congress of the revolutionary forces that met at
, in 1814 whereby the name América Mexicana ("Mexican America") was chosen for the country. The head of the insurgent forces, however, was defeated by the royalist forces, and the constitution was never enacted.
, in a treatise written in 1820 in which he discussed the reasons why New Spain was the only overseas territory of
that had not yet secured its independence, was used by the Populous Meaning In English , in Nahuatl, was used by the
to refer to the territory they dominated. According to some linguists, it means "near or surrounded by waters", probably in reference to
, even though it was also the word used to refer to the
or the terrestrial universe (as when used in the phrase Cem Anáhuac, "the entire earth") and in which their capital,
, was at the centre and at the same time at the centre of the waters, being built on an island in a lake.
Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire, 1821
In September 1821, the independence of Mexico was finally recognized by Spain, achieved through an alliance of royalist and revolutionary forces.
The former tried to preserve the status quo of the vice-royalty, menaced by the liberal reforms taking place in Spain, through the establishment of an autonomous
por la divina providencia y por el Congreso de la Nación, primer Emperador Constitucional de Mexico (Agustín de Iurbide First Constitutional Emperor of Mexico by Divine Providence and by the Congress of the Nation).
. The empire collapsed in 1823, and the republican forces drafted a
, Estados Unidos Mexicanos (also Estados-unidos mexicanos) — literally the Mexican United States or Mexican United-States (official English translation: United Mexican States) — was adopted as the country's official name.
used the term República Mexicana (Mexican Republic) interchangeably with Estados Unidos Mexicanos;
and United Mexican States is the normative English translation. The
from 1863 to 1867 by the conservative government that instituted a constitutional monarchy for a second time under
sent to the Mexican Congress a piece of legislation to change the country's name officially to simply Mexico. To go into effect, the bill would have to be passed by
, as well as a majority of Mexico's 31 state legislatures. Coming within just a week before
, many of the president's critics saw the proposal as nothing more than a symbolic gesture.
According to one legend, the war deity and patron of the Mexica
or Mexi as a secret name. Mexico would then mean "Place of Mexi" or "Land of the War God."
Another hypothesis suggests that Mēxihco derives from a
of the Nahuatl words for "moon" (mētztli) and navel (xīctli). This meaning ("Place at the Center of the Moon") might then refer to
. The system of interconnected lakes, of which Texcoco formed the center, had the form of a rabbit, which the Mesoamericans
Still another hypothesis offers that it is derived from Mectli, the goddess of
These last two suggestions are deprecated by linguist Frances Karttunen, since the final form "Mēxihco" differs in
is full of mysticism, however, as it was pointed out by the
In his mystic interpretation, Mexico could mean "Center of the World," and, in fact, it was represented as such in various codices, as a place where all water currents that cross the Anahuac ("world" or "land surrounded by seas") converge (see image on the
). It is thus possible that the other meanings (or even the "secret name" Mexi) were then popular
According to a letter written by a Creole priest, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, According to a letter written by a Creole priest Populous Meaning In English , many Nahuatl (Aztec) names had Hebrew roots:
According to Torquemada, "The first missionaries, in order to write the Aztec tongue . . . that we call Mexican, were in agreement with the wisest Indians created in the School of Santiago Tlatilolco (sic), and as their pronunciation has two Hebrew letters, Sade and Scin, they substitute them in their writing by approximating the first with tz and the second with a soft x. But . . . the majority of the conquistadors, being from Extremadura or Andalucia, or Arab in their pronunciation, strongly pronounced all of the x's written by the missionaries. . . . Because of this the Spaniards said "Mexico" (Mejico), even though the Indians invariably pronounced it "Mexico" (Mescico) with the Hebrew letter Scin. . ."
Mexico with a soft x like the Indians pronounced it means: "where Christ is worshiped" and [thus the term] "Mexicans" is the same as "Christians." . . . And Mexi, I ask, means what? As the Indians pronounced it, it is a Hebrew word that means, taking it from the Latin unctus, what we call "anointed," taking it from the Greek Chrestous, what we call "Christ," and taking it from the Hebrew Mesci, what we call "Messiah."
The Nahuatl word Mēxihco, was transliterated as "México" using Medieval Spanish orthography, in which the x represented the
’ the equivalent of English sh in "shop"), making "México" pronounced as [ˈmeʃiko]. At the time, Spanish j represented the
like the English s in "vision", or French j today).
However, by the end of the fifteenth century j had evolved into a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant as well, and thus both x and j represented the same sound.
During the sixteenth century this sound evolved into a
like the ch in Scottish "loch"), and México began to be pronounced
During the 1990s, the Real Academia Española recommended that México be the normative spelling of the word and all its derivatives, even though this spelling does not match the pronunciation of the word.
Since then, the majority of publications adhere to the new normative in all Spanish-speaking countries even though the disused variant can still be found.
, even though in most official or regional languages of Spain (
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