Those who played the drums, the old men, had brought their gourds of snuff and their timbrels ... From Miguel Leon­Portilla, ed., The Brohen Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston ...

Sergio Garcia, known as "Toluco," jokes with his son outside of "Mama Puebla," a Mexican restaurant in the Bronx owned by one of the Aztec Rebels. All the leather-vested men look to the staircase. As ...

The stone has long been an emblem of Mexican identity. Commissioned by the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II (r. 1502–1520), the nearly 12-foot-wide stone was completed during his reign, in about 1511.