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*'''January''' Nicholas Aurelius, founder of Ares, dies of a heart attack.
** Austrian and Czech forces led by Gen. Leopold von Hapsburg break the Russian lines south of Prague.
* '''January 20''' Andrew McAlister is re-inaugurated as President of the UCAS.
* '''January 23''' Sweden airspace monitors detect flights of aircraft they cannot conclusively identify flying across northern Europe. The phantom aircraft destroy key command and control centers for forces on both sides of the Euro War while unidentified commandos kill key military commanders and crash their Matrix networks. The United Kingdom denies any involvement in the affair in the wake of rumors that the aircraft were FA-38 Nightwraiths and the commandos were SAS.
* '''January 24''' Russia and the European Alliance announce a cease-fire, effectively ending the EuroWars.
* '''January 24''' Damien Knight acquires 22% of Ares Macrotechnology stock in approximately Nanosecond Buyout. He ousts Leonard Aurelius and makes himself CEO.
* The USDP-ESPP coalition wins the election in Germany.
* Aztechnology surreptitiously murders Aztlan President Francisco Pavón for disobedience.
* '''March 15''' Global Financial Services is renamed Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank and moved to the Zurich-Orbital Habitat (previously ''Freedom Station'').
* '''September 4''' The United Islamic Conference dissolves. Mullah Sayid Jazrir, a spiritual leader of al-Qaeda, forms the Alliance for Allah from terrorist groups and extreme right-wing governments.
* '''October 30''' ''Grumman v. Tulsa School Board''. The Grumman family argues that the school board unfairly expelled their son after his Goblinization, prevented him from returning when ordered to resume schooling, prevented the family from attending town hall meetings, fined the family for violating compulsory education laws, and destroyed public records of the family's complaints. The court finds in favor of the school board.
* '''November 14''' Ken Roper and Michael Eld, former members of Echo Mirage and founders of Matrix Systems, demonstrate their prototype cyberdeck in Boston, UCAS. A power outage ends the demonstration.
* The elven state of Pomorya is founded in northeast Germany.

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category2030s== Exchange Rate ==

Why was the canon reference of 500 pesos = 1 ¥ removed? --UserMshieh 1914, 14 Oct 2004 (Eastern Daylight Time)

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It is still present under the Economy header, along with some needed explanations about it. Aztlan (and Aztechnology) ''says'' that 500 peso worth 1¥. But practically, they put restrictions on exchanges with two classes of peso, they wouldn't be able to sustain that rate on their whole monetary mass. Converting the GDP from peso to nuyen simply won't give the right value to compare to other countries'. It's a situation very similar to Chinese yuan IRL.
--UserNath 2043, 14 Oct 2004 (Eastern Daylight Time)

== Border dispute ==
NEITHER COLOMBIA NOR VENEZUELA, PANAMA, COSTA RICA BELONG TO AZTLAN, CORRECTIONS WERE MADE.

AZTLANS STRETCHES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH WEST, TO NICARAGUA AND IT ENDS IN THE COSTA RICAN BORDER.

-- Paisaboy
Can anyone verify this claim? The "all caps" looks a bit annoying as well and should probably be removed. I guess the only way to find out the canon "truth" is to delve into the Aztlan sourcebook, which I don't have near me at the moment.

--UserHahnsoo 1623, 19 Mar 2005 (EST)

I don't know where he's getting his sources but...

The Aztlan sourcebook contains maps of the whole area, but SoLA will update them slightly. Aztlan has swallowed Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador; Costa Rica and Panama wholesale. It also controls the northern parts of Colombia (the rest is Amazonian except for a few remaining territories around Bogota which are what is nominally left of Colombia) and some of northern Venezuela including Lake Maracaibo iirc - the Andes pretty much mark the border. Sources are currently divided among the Aztlan sb and the Underworld sb (Ghost Cartel chapter) - SoLA will bring them together.

BTW - The rest of Venezuela has been annexed by Amazonia except for Caracas. The Panama Canal Zone is under Corp Court control and has been for a while.

--Synner

Updated the Geography section to reflect the borders as of the Aztlan Sourcebook (2056). I will have to look around in other sourcebooks for more up to date information, but indeed, Panama, some of Venezuela, and Colombia have been swallowed by Aztlan.
--UserHahnsoo 1500, 25 Apr 2005 (EDT)