By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) defined a meeting at the National Palace with five U.S. Republican and Democrat senators on Monday, July 5, as “cordial and friendly.” According to a tweet sent out by the president Monday night, during the roughly one-hour meet, he and the senators discussed a series of bilateral
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, April 27, that his government will be donating 1.2 million AstraZeneca covid vaccines to India in solidarity with that nation’s current coronavirus crisis. “When we were presented with a difficult situation, the second wave of the disease, we turned to India and it helped
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Two U.S. pundits point out that their country owes Afghans more than a quick goodbye
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XINHUA Discoveries at the legendary Sanxingdui ruins in southwest China show that the region’s ancient Shu state civilization shared similarities with the Maya, according to the director of the Chichén Itzá archaeological site, Marco Antonio Santos. The Sanxingdui ruins, located in the city of Guanghan, about 60 kilometers from Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, belonged to the Shu Dynasty
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By KELIN DILLON Over 196.7 billion pesos in investment into Mexico’s energy sector are now in jeopardy, following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial proposals to reform the nation’s electric industry, according to opponents of the bill. The proposed law would allow Mexico’s government-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to gain priority over private energy plants to upload their
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico announced Thursday, Jan. 14, that it is working to create a proposal with other nations in the Group of 20 (G20), an international group consisting of 19 countries and the European Union, to limit censorship by private social media companies following U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s controversial removal from several online platforms. Trump found himself without
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL When most people hear the phrase “City of Lights” they think of Paris. But when I hear a reference to the City of Lights, I think of the colorful central Vietnam coastal town of Hoi An, and its brightly, multihued buildings, French architecture and streets adorned with hundreds of lanterns of various shapes, sizes and colors
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The late 19th century and early 20th century writer and critic José Juan Tablada (1871-1945) is generally considered to be the Father of Modern Mexican Poetry. The son of a well-heeled businessman, he travelled abroad throughout much of his early life, living briefly in both Paris and New York. But it was Tablada’s obsession and fascination with
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When Mexico first began importing cherries from the northwestern U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana 15 years ago, the initial sales were relatively small, barely 6,000 cartons in 2004. But as Mexico’s appreciation of the fleshy little cerises increased, so did the demand for the fruits. In 2018, Mexico imported an unprecedented 200,000 crates
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL Of all the places I have traveled to date in Thailand, the small town of Pai is my favorite. It is located in a river valley high in Thailand’s northwest mountains. To get there, I flew from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and then I secured ground transportation to Pai. There are three ways to reach Pai:
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