By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It sounds like a plot out of a Hollywood movie. Actually. it is a plot out of a Hollywood movie: An Eastern European businessman arrives in an international airport only to discover that he is denied entry in the nation in which he has just landed and cannot return to his native country. But in this case,
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS John Ackerman, an American law professor who decided to switch out his U.S. passport for a Mexican substitute and join the leftist bandwagon of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) own personal vision of pseudo-democracy, has just gotten a taste of what AMLO’s Brave New World of dictatorial socialism is really about. After having been rejected
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Never mind that he has absolutely no diplomatic experience or training. Never mind that he knows nothing about the current armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And never mind that he has set as his “chief priority” the objective of making Wikipedia pay more heed to Mexican history (rather than such petty issues as bilateral trade,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s August, already, and it seems that the last easy-breezy days of summer are quickly slipping away. Soon, vacations will be over and schools will reopen (which means much worse traffic), and all those lazy afternoons of sitting around the pool or sipping coffee with friends at your favorite café will come to an end, and you
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There is no accounting for how Mexico’s Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) Tax Administration Service (SAT) decides who to prosecute and who to let slide, other than the fact that, like all government offices directly under Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), it takes its orders from the president. On Friday, July 29, the SAT notified the internationally disgraced
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OPINION PULSE NEWS MEXICO On the evening of Wednesday, July 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “hosted” yet another dinner at the National Palace for 50 of the country’s leading business community, and — true to AMLO form — the meal ended up being extremely costly … for the guests. The dinner, which was attended by members of
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than three and a half years of the same old spiel (“neoliberals are to blame for everything that’s wrong with the country,” “the conservative press are all unscrupulous liars,” and that most absurd claim of all, “my government is not corrupt”), it seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is finally beginning
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a scathing report on the state of poverty in Mexico, the New York Times (NYT) on Monday, July 18, pointed out that while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly claimed that fighting poverty is his most important priority, nearly every policy he has enacted has only served to hurt the poor. Nearly four years
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Rich in blood-pressure-lowering minerals like magnesium and potassium, and a compound known as mangiferin, which early studies suggest may help in reducing inflammation of the heart, mangos have been called the King of Fruits. And for good reason. Mangos, with their lush woody tang and creamy soft, high-fiber texture, are considered to be one of the most
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Egyptian Ambassador to Mexico Klaled Abdelrahaman Abdellatif Shamaa and his wife Radwa Abd el Aziz hosted a diplomatic reception at their Bosques de Chapultepec residence on Tuesday, July 19, to commemorate the anniversary of the 1952 military coup that led to the end of the Egyptian monarchy and the birth of the modern republic. In a brief
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