Tierra y Libertad
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Tierra y Libertad may refer to:
- ¡Tierra y Libertad!, slogan from the Mexican Revolution.
- Frente Popular Tierra y Libertad, Mexican organization.
- " Tierra y Libertad / Colonia Tierra y Libertad / TyL " , a neighborhood located within the edges of the Cerro del Topo ChicoCerro del Topo ChicoCerro del Topo Chico is an inactive volcano located in the western portion of the city of San Nicolás de los Garza and within the northern limits of the Monterrey metropolitan area .The gray areas depicted on the photos are limestone quarries from which raw material is extracted to manufacture...
, in the northern section of the municipality and metropolitan city of MonterreyMonterreyMonterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
, Nuevo LeonNuevo LeónNuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...
, MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, it began as a squatter town in the late 1970s, in what was then the outskirts of the city, and where the trash heaps were once located, and its inhabitants were known in Spanish as Paracaidistas (Parachutters); the name itself came from the revolutionary yell and slogan of the Ejército del Sur (Army of the South) of General Emiliano ZapataEmiliano ZapataEmiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South, during the Mexican Revolution...
during the Mexican RevolutionMexican RevolutionThe Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...
, poverty and crime have given this part of the city a bad reputation , and from time to time large scale gang fights known as a "riña campal" can irrupt into hours of street fighting , disrupting the everyday lifes of the locals , the area has always had the feeling of socialism and semi-communism within its quarters from its beginnings, the Mexican organization Frente Popular Tierra y Libertad / FPTyL originated here. - Tierra y Libertad, a squatter's camp near Los Cabos, Mexico which was hit by the 2006 Hurricane JohnHurricane John (2006)Hurricane John was the eleventh named storm, seventh hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season. Hurricane John developed on August 28 from a tropical wave to the south of Mexico. Favorable conditions allowed the storm to intensify quickly, and it attained peak winds...
. - The movie Tierra y Libertad (English title: Land and FreedomLand and FreedomLand and Freedom is a 1995 film directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War...
) by Ken Loach - Tierra y Libertad (newspaper), Spanish syndicalist newspaper in the early 20th century.
- A leftist political party in Perú founded by Father Macro Arana called Tierra y Libertad that will be in the 2011 National Elections.