Grupo Salinas region and by 1987, 59 stores. Elektra Group became a publicly traded company listed on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, the Mexican Stock Exchange. In 1993, Grupo Elektra bought the Imevisión government television network and renamed it TV Azteca. TV Azteca created an initial public offering in 1997 on the Mexican and New York stock exchanges. In 2012, Grupo Elektra, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Salinas, acquired Advance America for an estimated $780 million USD. In 2003, Grupo Salinas purchased the telecommunicaions company Iusacell and the mobile phone company Unefón. Iusacell was sold to AT&T in 2014, and rebranded
Academia Mexicana de la Historia Academia Mexicana de la Historia The Academia Mexicana de la Historia ("Mexican Academy of History", also known by the acronym AMH) is a national academy in Mexico, whose purpose is to promote and propagate historical studies within Mexico, conduct research into all aspects of the history of Mexico, and to contribute towards the preservation of the national cultural heritage. It is a correspondent academy to the "Real Academia de la Historia" in Madrid, the equivalent national academy of history in Spain. The AMH was formally constituted on September 12, 1919, after several previous attempts to form such a body had