Mexico City, Mexico

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker renowned for avant-garde surrealist cinema that blended dreamlike imagery with sharp political and social commentary

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate, one of the 20th century's most significant authors, known for blending the fantastic and realistic in his works

President of Mexico, known for leading the Liberal victory in the Reform War and the Second French intervention, and as the first Indigenous president

Mexican muralist whose large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art

Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat renowned for his influence on the Latin American Boom and works such as The Death of Artemio Cruz

Mexican painter known for her autobiographical portraits, self-portraits, and works exploring identity, gender, and pain through a blend of realism and fantasy

Mexican chemical engineer and Nobel laureate who co-discovered the danger of CFCs to the ozone layer and the Antarctic ozone hole