In the late nineteenth century, a woman named Estela moves with her young son to Mexico City to be close to her married lover and soon meets a mysterious and powerful woman who involves her in the beginnings of a social revolution.
When Carlitos attends a wrestling match in Mexico City with his father, his favorite masked-wrestler has eyes that are strangely familiar. Presented in English and Spanish.
Paco Poyo, a newsboy in a small Mexican town, agrees to deliver a message to a patient in the local hospital for a man who offers to buy all of Paco's papers, but the simple errand turns into a grand adventure.
In 1940, after traveling from their country village to Mexico City to find their mother, fourteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Victor are befriended by the artist Frida Kahlo and the talking animals and household objects that inhabit her home.
Presents an introduction to Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, provides information about the city's history, people, living and economic conditions, and culture, and takes a look at plans for the future.
Discusses the tools and techniques of archaeologists to uncover artifacts and evidence from ancient Aztec cities in order to better understand what hides beneath the Mexico City, the purpose for the temples, and what became of the Aztec empire.
