Iturbide’s Legacy: Independence and the Flag
Just as important as Hidalgo is the man that crafted the country’s independent separation from Spain after three centuries of colonization, Agustín de Iturbide
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Pilots Protest AMLO Reform to Allow Air Cabotage
López Obrador’s argument that this measure would lower the price of plane tickets is wrong
Read moreThe Mexican Senate’s Hour of Truth
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
Read morePaying Homage to Mexico’s Great Liberator
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 15, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1807 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The INE Registration Rush Is On The registration of new organizations that want to become Mexican political parties that claim to have complied with all stipulations made by the National Electoral Institute (INE) began over the weekend. The first to file the request was came last Friday, Feb. 21, the Solidarity Encounter Party (PES), on Friday, Feb.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Snafu over Gay Zapata Painting Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata was murdered 100 years ago, on April 10, 1919. Over the last century, he became a Mexican Revolution icon, a magic figure with a holy aura. But all hell broke loose this week at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) when, in an exhibit to
Read moreRemembering the Battle of Churubusco
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Aug. 20, 1847 – only a quarter century after the people of Mexican had won an 11-year-long war of independence against Spain, which had ruled the region for more than 300 years – the Mexican Army fought the now-famous Battle of Churubusco against the United States. Part of a much larger operation by
Read moreRemembering Mexico’s Great Liberator
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 18, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1806 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero, who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
Read moreHere Comes AMLO’s Fourth Republic
By RICARDO CASTILLO Throughout his electoral campaign, Mexico’s now-President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) kept on promising something he calls “the fourth transformation”, as well as the construction of the “Fourth Republic.” In reality, the concept is not new, since AMLO has been hammering on the “transformation” of Mexico since his first run for president back in 2006, when he lost by a
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