Asteroid 10806, Mexico, was discovered on March 23, 1993 by Eric W. Elst at Caussols, Alpes-Maritimes, France. It has a period of 5 years, 257 days.
Mexico was named for the country bordering the US on the south, known officially as Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States) and commonly as Mexico.
Mexico's first century after it received independence from Spain in 1821 was very unsettled politically, and while Mexico has made substantial progress, it is still a developing (one could say Third World) nation with a standard of living considerably below that of its northern neighbor the USA, to which it sends more immigrants, both legal and illegal, than all the other nations of the world combined.
Astrologically, asteroid Mexico seems to indicate Mexico and other developing countries and that which pertains to them, Mexican people and culture, conditions characteristic of developing nations, attitudes toward the people and cultures of developing countries..
19th-century Mexican president Benito Juarez (born March 21, 1806, in Guelatao de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico), one of Mexico's towering political figures and most beloved presidents, had Mexico conjunct Damocles, semisquare North Node, sextile Dioretsa (something that sticks), square Pholus (dictators, courage before power), trine Pallas (politics) and Don Quixote (taking on the system), sesquiquadrate South Node (past experiences), and parallel Neptune (ideals).
Vicente Fox (born July 2, 1942, in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico), one of his successors as president of Mexico and a right-of-center politician, has Mexico square Pluto (transformative, mass action), trine Jupiter (religion), sesquiquadrate Mercury, opposite Nessus (acquisitiveness), and contraparallel Hylonome (popular appeal).
California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante (born January 4, 1953, in Dinuba, California) has Mexico in the third house, on the IC, sextile Lilith (the marginalized, the reluctantly dealt with), trine Pholus, quincunx Venus and opposite Chaos (activism). His membership in Mecha as a college student and refusal to distance himself from it (including its Chicano separatism, which it put on the back burner long ago but has never formally renounced) has cost him political support.
Texas congressman Silvestre Reyes (born November 10, 1944, in Canutillo, Texas) is another Mexican-American politician. As a boy, Reyes served as lookout for the immigration police on his father's vegetable farm outside El Paso and then grew up to be a Border Patrol sector chief fighting illegal immigration (a lot of it from Mexico). His childhood experiences gave him a perspective on illegal immigration that some people who have a harsh attitude toward it don't have. Reyes has Mexico trine Mercury and quincunx Chariklo (need to maintain perspective).
César Chavez had Mexico in the seventh house, conjunct Varuna (grown big, judgment), semisquare Venus (values, indignation), trine Pallas and opposite Elatus (persuasive, expressive).
Former Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha (born January 12, 1970 in Long Beach, California) has Mexico semisquare Jupiter, quintile Neptune (idealism, altruism), trine Venus (art, values, indignation), quincunx Chaos, and opposite Mars (aggression).
Bea Salazar (born July 29, 1944, in Eagle Pass, Texas), a Carrollton, Texas woman who has devoted herself to helping poor children in the Dallas suburb where she lives, has Mexico conjunct Dioretsa, semisquare Juno, trine Venus and Lilith, and contraparallel Neptune.
Glen Bell (born September 3, 1923, in Los Angeles), founder of Taco Bell, has Mexico semisextile the Sun and sextile Lilith and Phaethon (a phenomenon).
Jesica Santillan was a teenage Mexican girl who came to the US illegally with her family to get an urgently needed heart-lung transplant not available in her homeland, only to die when doctors in North Carolina botched the transplant; some Americans actually questioned the morality of her receiving this medical care. Jesica had Mexico square Asbolus (terrible experiences) and quincunx Mars (surgery) and Pluto (having to leave something behind).
Right-wing extremist and immigration-basher David Duke has Mexico contraparallel Neptune (delusion).
George W. Bush has Mexico in the twelfth house, square the Moon (the public), Jupiter, Juno and Chiron (need to pay attention), quincunx Lilith and parallel Pallas.
Sukarno (born June 6, 1901 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia), founding president of Indonesia, had Mexico semisextile Asbolus, quintile Juno, square the Sun and Uranus (activism, antics), and trine Saturn.
Suharto (born June 8, 1921 in Kemusu Argamulja, Central Java, Indonesia), his successor, was not given to Sukarno's antics and addressed many of the country's problems that Sukarno had neglected, but barely tolerated political opposition. Suharto has Mexico conjunct Lilith and quintile the Sun.
Xanana Gusmao, president of East Timor, one of the world's poorest countries, which is struggling with Australia over possibly crucial oil rights in the Timor Sea, has Mexico in the fourth house of homeland, semisextile Pluto, sextile Nessus (greed, covetousness) and Chariklo, square Ixion (creating karma) and opposite Pallas.
Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, has Mexico semisquare Juno, square Ixion, biquintile Saturn, quincunx Phaethon (in the driver's seat), opposite Chariklo, and contraparallel the Sun.
Nigerian president Olesugun Obasanjo (born March 5, 1937, in Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria), a democratically elected former military dictator, has Mexico nonile Mars, square Juno, trine Uranus (making a break) and Pandora (having an impact), parallel Jupiter (the law, religion, foreign relations), and contraparallel Phaethon.
Lori Berenson (born November 13, 1969 in New York), an American political activist imprisoned in Peru for aiding the guerrilla (some say terrorist) organization Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), has Mexico semisquare Jupiter (foreign travel, philosophy, the law), quintile Sun, trine Phaethon (out of control), and contraparallel Venus.
Tom Dooley, an American physician who gained fame in the 1960s for his efforts to bring health care to the impoverished people of Laos, had Mexico in the fourth house, on the IC, conjunct Chaos, decile Sun, quintile Mars (energy) and square Ceres (to nurture).
The glyph for Mexico is mine and is meant to represent an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its mouth which is on the Mexican flag.