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    Blog of Armenians living in Mexico

    There are some 400 Armenians in Mexico, I came across a blog/website of them while searching for sites about genocide in Spanish, site is in Espanol btw :

    Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
    http://www.geocities.com/armenianmexico/
    Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
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    This is great news, really. I had no idea.
    THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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      Yep

      In addition Mexico's foreign minister to the US is Armenian (Arturo Sarukhan, his grandfather was Armenian Russian, surname Artur Sarukhanyan).

      Also Armen Ohanian was a famous Armenian dancer from Baku who settled in Mexico with her husband who was Mexican economist.

      There weren't alot of Armenian who settled in Mexico during the genocide as there was political instability due to the civil war, however the main influx happened during the early 1970s due to the Videla dictatorship in Argentina (googled Dirty War Argentina) which forced many Armenians and Argentines of all descents to escape the "disappearances" of Argentine citizens

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        Pedro, good info. I am not surprised. I have always said that no matter where you go in this world there will be an Armenian representative there in one form or another. Try North Pole amigo, I kid you not.

        I didn’t know that Mexico’s foreign minister is Armenian. That is cool. Go Arturo, I like his name modification for the office.

        You know, this reminds me of a sad quote by William Saroyan who said this after the AG:

        "I should like to see any power in this world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people whose history is ended, whose wars have been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, and whose prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy this race! Destroy Armenia! See if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes and churches. Then, see if they will not laugh again, see if they will not sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia."

        I don't agree with him but I like what he said.

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          Yeah, he has A LOT of great quotes, one of my favorite writers.
          THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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            Armenian dude in Cabo

            Taken from Cilicia.com

            One Mexican Armenian in Cabo

            As I’m waiting for a meeting to start I thought I would share a story.

            The warm weather is noticeably slipping away, even in Los Angeles where the change in seasons is relatively mild. So, when I was asked to be the +1 on a company retreat to Cabo San Lucas last week, who was I to refuse…summer weather stretched indefinitely, ridiculously good lobster, and if I surfed I would be one happy camper…but hey, two of three is great.

            My first order of business was to scope out the people in our group and determine who would most likely be up for going on an adventurous scuba diving excursion with me. I gently zeroed in on two people who reside in Manhattan Beach and brought their boogie boards along for the weekend. It seemed like a no-brainer and my persuasion skills resulting in a trip to the concierge to set everything up. You don’t need to be certified in Mexico to go scuba diving…gotta love it!

            So, last Saturday as we are walking into the scuba shop our new friend asks humorously, “Hey, isn’t that Glendale’s flag?”. I look over and see a little table top Armenian flag sitting next to the Mexican flag. You know what they say… when two Armenians meet…so, I ask and it turns out that Mike runs the Scuba Shop and is Mexican Armenian. He was born in Mexico City and has been living in Cabo for more than 10 years. Mike clearly enjoyed the opportunity to speak in Armenian to someone. His grandfather taught him the language as a child and dreams of one day visiting Armenia and learning to speak fluently. He is the only Armenian living in Cabo, however knows of many living in rural areas throughout Mexico. It felt so endearing to hear him express the innocence in the spirit of his heritage. If you find yourself in Cabo visit the scuba shop in the lighthouse and say "Parev" to Mike...you'll make his day

            Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera to take a picture but it was pretty cool to meet this guy in a place I wouldn’t have expected to run into local Armenians (but, I still think Scuba Diving was a tad bit cooler!).

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              A famous Armenian Mexican : Paris Maria Pismis (born Maria Sukiasyan in Konstantinopolous)

              Paris Maria Pişmiş (January 30, 1911 – August 1, 1999) was an astronomer of Armenian descent.

              Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasyan in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She worked in Mexico from 1940 until her death there in 1999. She was the first woman to graduate from the scientific faculty of Istanbul University.

              Pişmiş studied among others the kinematics of galaxies, H II nebulae, the structure of open star clusters and planetary nebulae. She compiled the catalogue Pismis of 22 open clusters and 2 globular clusters in the southern hemisphere.[1

              Check out http://www.tayabeixo.org/biografias/pismis.htm (In Spanish)

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