By RICARDO CASTILLO Who’s behind the letter President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent to the king of Spain earlier this week demanding an apology for the atrocities against Mexican natives committed on orders of the king’s Borbón predecessors during 300 years of colonial rule from 1521 through 1821? The simple answer is, his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller. Did she really
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When it comes to wines, not every bottle is going to have the elegant balance and graceful aging of a Château Lafite-Rothschild magnum opus. And, the truth is, not every meal merits a break-the-bank investment in a pricy vintage. So while there will always be those special occasions when you want to go ahead and splurge
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s new brand of diplomacy is about to undergo its first acid test. On Friday, Jan. 4, the Foreign Relations ministers or secretaries of the 14 Latin American nations that make up the Lima Group (a multilateral body that was established following the Lima Declaration on Aug. 8, 2017, in the Peruvian capital under which representatives of 17 countries
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By WILLIAM JACK SIBLEY For five years in the late 1970s, early 80s, I was employed as a “Spanish speaker” steward for the coolest (at the time) airline in the world – Braniff International. Braniff was famous for inaugurating “The End of the Plain Plane” in it’s attention-getting, revamped transformation designed by Madison Avenue whiz kid Mary Wells Lawrence, second
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at his home in Houston, late Friday, Nov. 30, just eight months after the death of his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush. Bush, born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 194, was a lifelong Republic who served as president from 1989
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s outgoing president, Enrique Peña Nieto, will arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, Nov. 29, to participate in the G-20 meeting, sign the latest draft for the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – which will replace the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – and present U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that more Mexicans are – at long last – interested in a presidential race. The figures for some foreign observers may not be impressive, but, locally, the audience participation results of last Sunday’s debate issued by the National Electoral Institute (INE) showed that 11.4 million Mexicans watched it and that two out of every
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