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  • The name Mestizo refers to Mexico's melting pot of cultures, and you can tour the seaside with ceviches, shrimp dishes and fresh fish or graze on countryside and street-style specialties such as pork belly, veal sweetbreads or skirt-steak tacos.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2012

  • Simmons, Ozzie G. 1969 "Popular and Modern Medicine in Mestizo Communities of Coastal Peru and Chile."

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • He also started his last mural, a triptych entitled "Our Gods", and following year initiated a series called "Mestizo", in which he pays tribute to the beauty of the mixed race of his people.

    Saturnino Herran: A Bright Light Too Soon Extinguished 2007

  • He also started his last mural, a triptych entitled "Our Gods", and following year initiated a series called "Mestizo", in which he pays tribute to the beauty of the mixed race of his people.

    Saturnino Herran: A Bright Light Too Soon Extinguished 2007

  • Expect food stalls run by restaurants such as Mestizo, Lupita and Santo and Mexican ingredients from suppliers like Mission Foods, Organic Exotic, Mex Grocer and the Cool Chile Company.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Soon after news of Juan Diego's apparition made its way around Mexico, the native Indians reconciled (a polite way of putting it!) with the Spaniards and a new race of people, the Mestizo, was created.

    Christmas in Mexico 2009

  • I haven't seen reference to a Mestizo "race" in any reputable publication dated after about 1970.

    Christmas in Mexico 2009

  • Today, it is estimated that anywhere from 60-80% of the Mexican population is Mestizo and slightly more than 90% of all Mexicans are Catholic.

    Christmas in Mexico 2009

  • Starting with this account of his humble origins, Manny Garcia, who describes himself as "a left-handed, rather contrary Mestizo-American," has written a memoir that begins in late 1947 in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado and takes him to Utah and a stint as a Mormon and ultimately to Vietnam.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • My training group visited Benque Viejo del Carmen in western Belize to learn about the culture and traditions of the Maya Mestizo.

    Photo Essay: Peace Corps Volunteers Share 50 Years of Memories 2011

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