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Mexican America dating 1607 (www.rawstory.com)

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President Sheinbaum "used her Wednesday morning news conference to show a world map dating from 1607. The map labeled North America as Mexican America and already identified the Gulf of Mexico as such, 169 years before the United States was founded," The New York Times reports.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Well, it seems that the territory in question later became what is known as the Mexican Cession of 1848.

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