Horchata de arroz is a traditional refreshing drink widely consumed. It is one of the many traditional aguas frescas of Mexico and Central America, where it is also prepared with hibiscus, tamarind and other typical fruits. In Venezuela there is chicha criolla, which is very similar. There are other similar drinks made from tiger nuts or almonds, which are generically called horchata.

The word horchata comes from the Latin hordeata, barley water, made from hordeum, a Latin word meaning barley. According to the RAE, the word would have arrived in Spanish through Mozarabic, which would explain the consonant transformation to ch and the maintenance of the t, instead of the natural evolution that would have become orzada, similar to the Italian, orzata.

In Spain, and especially in the Valencian Community, horchata is made from the tiger nut (Cyperus esculentus). Apparently, it was already used in ancient Egypt, having been found vessels containing tigernuts as part of the funerary trousseau of the pharaohs. Likewise, Persian and Arab authors of antiquity mention the digestive and disinfectant benefits of the tigernut, then used as a medicinal drink because it was considered energetic and diuretic.

With the passage of time, and as its use spread to other parts of the world with different availability of ingredients, barley would be replaced by other vegetables (cereals, tubers such as tigernuts, fruits such as almonds, as well as rice and others), which resulted in different types of horchata. All of them are drinks of similar appearance that are characterized by their milky white color, although they are made with different ingredients and processes.

Currently, rice horchata syrups are available in the market, promoted by important brands, due to its wide consumption, in addition to the instant powdered drink, including in a low-calorie version.

In the southeast of Mexico, artisanal horchata syrups are produced. The states of Veracruz, Tabasco, Quintana Roo, Yucatan and Campeche stand out.

Horchatinol is the commercial brand of horchata concentrate that emerged in Mérida, Yucatán, in 1946, motivated by Yucatecan demand. In the city of Mérida, in the early 1930's, with great vision, Manuel Mézquita Aragón and Lucía Zapata de Mézquita perfected the formula for the preparation of the horchata water originally from Spain, although this one was based on tiger nuts.

Horchata de arroz has been considered a refreshing drink that is taken with ice during the summer or in places with hot weather; however, recently it has become popular to drink it hot, similar to an infusion that relieves stomach discomfort. Its flavor, which may resemble that of rice pudding, a very traditional dessert in Mexico, includes cinnamon sprinkled on top, and is consumed in cold climates.

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The Salvadoran Civil War was a civil war in El Salvador which was fought between the military-led junta government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) (a coalition of left-wing groups) from 15 October 1979 to 16 January 1992. A coup on October 15, 1979, was followed by killings of anti-coup protesters by the government and of anti-disorder protesters by the guerrillas, and is widely seen as the start of civil war.

The fully-fledged civil war lasted for more than 12 years and included the deliberate terrorizing and targeting of civilians by US-trained government death squads including prominent clergy from the Catholic Church, the recruitment of child soldiers and other human rights violations, by the military. An unknown number of people disappeared while the UN reports that the war killed more than 75,000 people between 1979 and 1992.

During the Carter and Reagan administrations, the US provided 1–2 million dollars per day in economic aid to the Salvadoran government and by 1984, 1 billion dollars had been given. The US also provided significant training and equipment to the military. The Salvadoran government was considered "friendly" and an ally by the U.S. in the context of the Cold War. In May 1983, it was reported that US military officers were working within the Salvadoran High Command and making important decisions.

Counterinsurgency tactics implemented often targeted civilians with the United Nations estimating that the FMLN guerrillas were responsible for 5% of the acts of violence of civilians during the civil war, while 85% were committed by the Salvadoran armed forces and death squads.

The war ended in 1992 when the combatants of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), made up of five leftist groups, and the right-wing government of then-President Alfredo Cristiani, signed the Peace Accords on January 16, 1992 in Chapultepec. , Mexico, which ensured political and military reforms, but did not deepen the social or economic aspects, definitively postponing any improvement or progress on both issues.

Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation

It was founded on October 10, 1980 by the Popular Liberation Forces "Farabundo Martí" (FPL), the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), the National Resistance (RN), the Central American Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRTC) and the Salvadoran Communist Party (PCS). There was several antecedents of guerrilla unity with the FMLN.

The first weighty action of the FMLN was the launching, on January 10, 1981, of a final offensive against the Salvadoran civic-military dictatorship, made up of the so-called "Revolutionary" Government Junta, an alliance of military and civilians that It lasted from October 1979 to early 1982, in three stages. The offensive did not achieve its objective and - although along with it the height of the mass struggle that the country was experiencing disappeared - the FMLN was strengthened militarily and conducted the war, from the side of the left, until the signing of the Accords of Peace of January 1992.

The FMLN took its name from the communist leader Farabundo Martí (shot in the peasant uprising of 1932 by the National Police led by Osmín Aguirre Salinas during the dictatorship of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez), delegate of the Socorro Rojo Internacional, and one of the organizers of the Peasant and indigenous insurrection of 1932. The uprising was controlled by the National Guard, a body of internal repression created in 1912, under the dictatorship of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. During repression operations, thousands of peasants and indigenous people were shot.

Salvadorian Jesuits Murdered

On this day in 1989, during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvadoran soldiers killed six Jesuits and two others on the campus of Central American University in San Salvador and attempted to frame the act on rebel groups. The Jesuits were advocates of a negotiated settlement between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and their murders prompted international outrage.

The Atlacatl Battalion (trained at the U.S. "School of the Americas") was an elite unit of the Salvadoran Army responsible for the violence. The Jesuits were deemed "subversives" that needed to be eliminated, and officers attempted to disguise the operation as a rebel attack, using an AK-47 rifle that had been captured from the FMLN.

After storming their residence and killing the priests, soldiers also executed housekeeper Julia Elba Ramos and her 16-year-old daughter, Celina Mariceth Ramos. The murders increased international pressure for a cease-fire and became one of the key turning points that led toward a negotiated settlement to the war.

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Neoliberal policies continued to deepen the social deterioration of the country with governments very close to the United States. On the other hand, the last presidential elections, held on March 15, 2009, won the journalist Mauricio Funes of the FMLN party, who reestablished relations with Cuba and promoted policies of social benefit.

The FMLN from power promotes a government program that is based on the redistribution of national wealth. Since coming to power, the left has proposed a new fiscal pact that will shift the burden of taxes to the richest and free the poor and the middle class of their burden. In El Salvador until February 2011, the highest income sectors received from the state almost twice as many subsidies as the poorest. This plan pitted the government against the business sectors, refusing to pay more taxes and redistribute income.

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This Picture is the Celebration of the takeover of Mexico City by Pancho Villa And Emiliano Zapata

Here is a Map of the Second Phase of the revolution when the Armies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza united against the US backed goverment of Victoriano Huerta plus info about who they were

for you anarchists here is an important Mexican anarchist during the revolution Ricardo Flores Magón

the Mexican Revolution started when Francisco Ignacio Madero issued a "letter from jail," known as the Plan de San Luis Potosí, with its main slogan Sufragio Efectivo, No Re-elección ("free suffrage and no re-election"). It declared the Díaz presidency illegal and called for revolt against him, starting on 20 November 1910.

The Mexican Revolution ended with the assasination of President Alvaro Obregon, he was succeded by President Plutarco Ellias Calles who would become the Jefe Maximo of the country during 6 years, during which he would found the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (current day PRI) that would rule Mexico for 71 years until 2000, the Next president after the Maximato was Lazaro Cardenas who would pass socialist reforms during his rule including Zapata's Land redistribution plan and his most famous act the Nationalization of the Oil Industry into Pemex

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