1. The mestizos, mulattoes, and whites were brutally murdered as they slept.

2. Boves's mestizos aimed to exterminate the creoles and to destroy their property.

3. Diverse immigration has brought more mixed race people into the United States, such as a significant population of Hispanics identifying as mestizos.

4. Inhabitants include Maya (Kekchi, Mopan, and Yucatec), Creoles (people of mixed African and European ancestry), Mestizos (mixed Spanish and Maya), Garinagu (mixed African and Carib), East Indians, Lebanese, Chinese, and Europeans, including German and Dutch Mennonites.