Edited sentence: A government that has insisted upon denying the African slave presence that helped build Mexico.Emiliano Zapata was a leader of the revolution and he too was of Indigenous/African blood.In all fairness history must be told and miscegenation is no excuse for denial.It would have been impossible for a few slaves to mine the outrageous amounts of silver and gold the spaniards needed to take back to spain.Miscegenation is responsible for Mexico's hidden African slave past as opposed to the first writer's claim of the African numbers simply dropped off.One can only wonder of what national composition the genome project of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGENis made of.One would have to wonder how a country with such little African presence ( 1% according to the first writer of this blog) how in the world did a country with 1% African blood (during the 1800's) produce a black president and a black govenor and over 10 towns in southern Mexico with African names i.The African presence that produced North America's first black president (Vicente Guerrero, 1829)and California's last govenor, another person of Indigenous / African blood (Pio Pico Rivera).The level of study is questionable considering the number of African slaves compared with the spaniard slavers numbered ratio sat at 20:1 during colonial Mexico.Was it composed of Mexico's government.just a few Yanga,Mozambique,matamboa