Maximilian, a young Austrian prince of the house of Hapsburg, somewhat naively accepted the offer to rule a distant and ...

“What happens,” writes the Mexican novelist Fernando del Paso, “when an author can’t escape history? . . . what can you do . . . when you don’t want to avoid history, but do want to ...

Here in the United States, many people marked Cinco de Mayo last week, May 5th, a holiday that commemorates Mexico’s unexpected victory over France in the Battle of Puebla, May 5th, 1862, and is ...

The conflict between church and state led to civil war and a French invasion which made an Austrian prince, Maximillian, emperor of the so called Second Empire.

MEXICO CITY — On a clear day, on the 44th floor of the Latin American Tower, you can see forever. Or at least to the volcanoes surrounding this sprawling city. Mexico's version of the Empire ...