Mexico Designers Set to Show at Russian Fashion Week By KELIN DILLON A handful of Mexican designers will show their latest collections at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia (MBFWR) this upcoming Thursday, April 22, via curated fashion films, giving worldwide exposure to a choice selection of Mexican brands, set to be broadcast live on international publications like Vogue Russia. The
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XINHUA The Argentine e-commerce sales company Mercado Libre announced on Tuesday, April 6, that it will invest $1.1 billion in Mexico in 2021, mainly to expand its warehouse facilities amid an increasing demand generated by the covid-19 pandemic. The general director of Mercado Libre México David Geisen explained in a virtual conference that the investment for 2021 is the largest
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Bill It will come as no surprise for most people in Mexico that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Electricity Reform Bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, as programmed by Congress’ majority rule, now in the hands of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party, and will now head to the Senate. If
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By RICARDO CASTILLO MLK III at Guerrero Homage Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of U.S. civil rights activist MLK, Jr., was the keynote speaker Sunday, Feb. 14, at the homage paid to the memory of Mexico’s second president, Vicente Guerrero. Guerrero was killed 190 years ago at Cuilápa, Oaxaca. Guerrero, a descendant of African slaves brought to Mexico,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) launched a series of 15 commemorative events to mark the country’s 200th independence anniversary on Sunday, Feb. 14, 1831. The first event in the series took place in Cuilapan, Oaxaca, where Afro-Mexican independence hero, abolitionist and former President Vicente Guerrero was executed on Feb. 14, 1831. The
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Argentine President Alberto Fernández is slated to pay a whirlwind visit to Mexico on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at the invitation of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). According to sources inside the presidential residence of the National Palace, Fernández will attend a bicentennial ceremony marking the promugation of the Plan de Iguala,
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XINHUA New vehicle sales in Mexico plummeted by 22.5 percent in January compared to the same month of 2020, after a rebound in the novel coronavirus pandemic led to reimposed lockdowns, official figures showed Thursday, Feb. 4. A total of just 81,203 vehicles were sold in the first month of the year, compared 104,852 units in January of last year,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Less than a month after his 60th birthday, Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack, sources close to his family said Wednesday, Nov. 25. Considered one of the greatest soccer players in the history of the game, Maradona became a household name after leading his country to victory in the
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