Gertrude Blom was an anthropolgist who studied the culture of the peoples who lived in what Mexican state?
Chiapas
Lacandon people
The Lacandon are one of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the southern border with Guatemala.
 Their homeland, the Lacandon Jungle, lies along the Mexican side of the Usumacinta River and its tributaries.
 The Lacandon are one of the most isolated and culturally conservative of Mexico's native peoples.
 Almost extinct in 1943, today their population has grown significantly, yet remains small, at approximately 650 speakers of the Lacandon language.
Gertrude Blom
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom (born Gertrude Elisabeth Lörtscher; July 7, 1901 – December 23, 1993)  was a Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer who spent five decades chronicling the Mayan cultures of Chiapas, Mexico, particularly the culture of the Lacandon Maya.
 In later life, she also became an environmental activist.
 Blom's former home Casa Na Bolom is a research and cultural center devoted to the protection and preservation of the Lacandon Maya and La Selva Lacandona rain forest.
Cora people
The Cora are an indigenous ethnic group of Western Central Mexico which live in the municipality El Nayar in the Mexican state of Nayarit and in a few settlements in the neighboring state of Jalisco.
 They call themselves "náayerite" (plural; "náayeri" singular), whence the name of the present day Mexican state of Nayarit.
 The 2000 Mexican census reported that there were 24,390 persons who were members of Cora speaking households, these being defined as households where at least one parent or elder claim to speak the Cora language.
 Of these 24 thousand, 67 percent (16,357) were reported to speak Cora, 17 percent were nonspeakers, and the remaining 16 percent were unspecified with regard to their language. Politics and government of Nuevo León
The governmental structures of Nuevo León, a Mexican state, are organized according to article 30 of the state constitution, which provides for a republican, representative and popular government, divided into three independent branches (executive, legislative and judicial) that cannot be joined together in a single person or institution.
 Nuevo León's relation with the federal government of Mexico places it in a similar relation to that federal government as any other Mexican state, but it retains certain aspects of sovereignty with respect to other Mexican states and even toward foreign countries, especially with reference to its own internal affairs. 2006 Oaxaca protests
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
 The conflict emerged in May 2006 with the police responding to a strike involving the local teachers' trade union by opening fire on non-violent protests.
 It has since grown into a broad-based movement pitting the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) against the state's governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz.
 Protesters demand the removal or resignation of Ortiz, whom they accuse of political corruption and acts of repression.
 Multiple reports, including from international human rights monitors, have accused the Mexican government of using death squads, summary executions, and even violating Geneva Conventions standards that prohibit attacking and shooting at unarmed medics attending to the wounded. Paul Friedrich (linguist)
Paul William Friedrich (October 22, 1927 – August 11, 2016) was an American anthropologist, linguist, poet, and Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
 He studied at Harvard with Roman Jakobson, and received his Ph.D. from Yale under the supervision of Sidney Mintz.
 He specialized in Slavic languages and literature, and in the ethnographic and linguistic study of the Purépecha people of Western Mexico, as well as in the role of poetics and aesthetics in creating linguistic and discursive patterns.
 Among his best known works were "Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village" (1970; 1977), "The Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method" (1987), both ethnographic works describing local politics in a small community in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
 And in linguistics his works "The Tarascan Suffixes of Locative Space: Meaning and Morphotactics" [1971] and "A Phonology of Tarascan" [1973] were among the most detailed as well as earliest modern linguistic of the Purépecha language.
 In 2005, his former students honored him with a festschrift titled "Language, Culture and the Individual: A Tribute to Paul Friedrich".
 In 2007 Yale University awarded Friedrich with the Wilbur Cross Medal.
 A prolific poet he also published seven collections of poems, some of them focusing on the haiku form. Yucatán gubernatorial election, 2012
The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Yucatán were held on Sunday, July 1, 2012.
 Incumbent Yucatán Governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term in office.
 The Yucatán gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections. Juan Cortina
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina Goseacochea (May 16, 1824 – October 30, 1894), also known by his nicknames Cheno Cortina, the Red Robber of the Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Robin Hood, was a Mexican rancher, politician, military leader, outlaw and folk hero.
 He was an important caudillo, military general and regional leader, who effectively controlled the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as governor.
 In borderlands history he is known for leading a paramilitary mounted Mexican Militia in the failed Cortina Wars.
 The "Wars" were raids targeting Anglo-American civilians whose settlement Cortina opposed near the several leagues of land granted to his wealthy family on both sides of the Rio Grande.
 Anglo families began immigrating to the Lower Rio Grande Valley after the Mexican Army was defeated by the Anglo-Mexican rebels of the Mexican State of Tejas, in the Texas Revolution.
 From 1836 to 1848 when Cortina was 12–24 years old, parts of the Cortina Grant North of the Rio Grande River was in the disputed territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers, claimed by both Mexico and the Republic of Texas.
 The situation had a big impact on Cortina and his perspective on government and power.
 When the United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican-American War in 1848, Mexico was forced to concede the disputed territory to Texas.
 Cortina opposed this concession.
 However, Cortina's Mexican militia was easily defeated and forced to flee into Mexico when the Texas Rangers, the United States Army and the local militia of Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
 According to Robert Elman, author of "Badmen of the West", Cortina was the first "socially motivated border bandit," similar to Catarino Garza and Pancho Villa of later generations.
 His followers were known as the "Cortinistas." Guanajuato gubernatorial election, 2012
The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Guanajuato was held on Sunday, July 1, 2012.
 Incumbent Guanajuato Governor Juan Manuel Oliva of the National Action Party (PAN) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term in office.
 The Guanajuato gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections. Chiapas gubernatorial election, 2012
The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Chiapas was held on Sunday, July 1, 2012.
 Incumbent Chiapas Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term.
 The Chiapas gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections.