The world is down to its lowest grain stocks for decades, and food prices are way up around the world. There are riots over the price of basic foods in Mexico and India, and in Jakarta, Indonesia. Low-income Americans are also feeling the pinch. Global warming? David Kagan, author of Sunstroke, wrote about food riots in the book Doomwatch Legacy.

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HAVANA | Brazil’s president met Tuesday with ailing Fidel Castro, a surprise ending to a visit in which he offered Cuba credits for food and infrastructure. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also signed a deal for Brazil to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

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World food supplies are dwindling as expanding populations and biofuels eat up reserves. Protests over food have already erupted in Italy, Mexico, and India, and experts say it may be only two years (2010) before protests turn into widespread riots.

Mexico is a country in North America and the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. It also has the largest number of American Indian language speakers on the continent (the majority speaking Nahuatl, Mayan, Mixtec and Zapotec). Human presence in Mexico has been shown to date back 40,000 years based upon ancient human footprints discovered in the Valley of Mexico (previous evidence substantiated indigenous inhabitants at 12,500 years ago). For thousands of years, Mexico was a land of hunter-gatherers. Around 9,000 years ago, ancient Mexicans domesticated corn and initiated an agricultural revolution, leading to the formation of many complex civilizations. These civilizations revolved around cities with writing, monumental architecture, astronomical studies, mathematics, and militaries. After 4,000 years, these civilizations were destroyed with the arrival of the Spaniards in 1519. For three centuries, Mexico was colonized by Spain, during which time the majority of its indigenous population died off. Formal independence from Spain was recognized in 1821. France then invaded Mexico in 1864 and ruled briefly until 1867. A war with the United States ended with Mexico losing almost half of its territory in 1848 and the Mexican Revolution would later result in the death of 10% of the nation's population. Since then, Mexico as a nation-state has struggled with reconciling its deeply-entrenched indigenous heritage with the demands of the modern Western cultural model imposed in 1519. The nation's name is derived from the Mexica civilization (known in popular culture as the Aztecs).