Leaders & Power
This longtime Mexican ruler promoted modernization and foreign investment while suppressing political opposition from 1876 to 1911.
Porfirio Díaz
This Netflix series follows a group of teenagers in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, who encounter a parallel dimension.
Stranger Things
This armed conflict began in 1910 as opposition to dictatorship, political exclusion, and unequal land ownership.
Mexican Revolution
This artist released the 2025 album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.
Bad Bunny
This political party dominated Mexico's presidency from 1929 until 2000, limiting meaningful electoral competition.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
This video game features Creepers, Endermen, and a dimension called the Nether.
Minecraft
This Indigenous liberal president defended the republic against French intervention and restored republican government in 1867.
Benito Juárez
This 2025 animated Netflix film follows a fictional K-pop girl group that secretly fights demons.
KPop Demon Hunters
This document, adopted in 1917, established protections for workers, land reform, and secular education.
Constitution of 1917
This singer released the hits "Espresso" and "Please Please Please."
Sabrina Carpenter
This 1968 event involved government forces opening fire on student demonstrators in Mexico City shortly before the Olympic Games.
Tlatelolco Massacre
This California-based burger chain is known for its Animal Style and Protein Style menu options.
In-N-Out Burger
This president redistributed land to peasants and nationalized Mexico's oil industry in 1938.
Lázaro Cárdenas
This actor plays the title character in the 2025 film Superman, directed by James Gunn.
David Corenswet
This southern revolutionary leader advocated land redistribution and is associated with the slogan "Land and Liberty."
Emiliano Zapata
This artist released the album GNX and performed at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show in 2025.
Kendrick Lamar
This 1994 trade agreement linked Mexico, the United States, and Canada in a major free-trade arrangement.
NAFTA
This NBA player won the 2024–25 regular-season MVP award while playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
This revolutionary leader founded the National Revolutionary Party in 1929, laying the foundation for decades of single-party dominance.
Plutarco Elías Calles
This HBO series follows a fungal pandemic and stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.
The Last of Us
This constitutional article established the legal foundation for land redistribution and national control over natural resources.
Article 27
This singer's 2025 hit "Ordinary" became a major international chart success.
Alex Warren
This Indigenous-led rebel organization launched an uprising in Chiapas on January 1, 1994, protesting poverty and political exclusion.
EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation)
This Nintendo franchise features a fictional region called Paldea, introduced in the games Scarlet and Violet.
Pokémon
This opposition candidate's presidential victory in 2000 ended 71 years of rule by Mexico's dominant political party.
Vicente Fox
This 2014 science-fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan features astronauts traveling through a wormhole near Saturn to search for a new home for humanity.
Interstellar
This economic strategy encouraged domestic manufacturing by protecting local industries from foreign competition through tariffs and state investment.
Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)
This British artist released the 2024 album BRAT, which inspired a widely recognized lime-green aesthetic and online trend.
Charli XCX
Established in 1990, this federal institution became central to organizing elections and improving electoral credibility during Mexico's democratic transition.
Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE)
This Japanese company created the original Final Fantasy franchise before merging with Enix in 2003.
Square