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Cinco de Mayo
Latin America
U.S. Hispanic population percent change by county, 2000–10
Las Posadas
Migrant children
U.S. Hispanic population by state, 2010
Battle of Tenochtitlán
Chapultepec Castle during the Mexican-American War
Pancho Villa
Dorothea Lange: photograph of a Mexican migrant worker
What is National Hispanic Heritage Month?
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