By MARK LORENZANA Let’s all give Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez a break. And by “break,” I don’t just mean the current F1 summer break that’s driving (pun definitely intended) all those die-hard motorsports fans crazy right now. A short digression, for those who are not F1 die-hards: What exactly is the F1 summer break? It’s the
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By SHERRY SPISNAUGLE Set high in the Bavarian Alps, with a stunning view of Germany’s tallest peak, the Zugspitze, Schloss Elmau Luxury Spa Retreat & Cultural Hideaway sits a 20-minute drive from the border of Austria. In November, I was a guest at this elegant hotel. where the G7 summit met in 2015 and will meet again on June 26
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As of May 2023, all Mexican tourists traveling to the European Union will be required to first obtain a European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) visa, the EU announced on Wednesday, June 8. The new visa will allow Mexican tourists to visit parts of Europe for up to 90 days at a time and will be
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The auction of a Pre-Columbian archaeological artifact, which was slated to go on the block at Vienna’s Zacke Gallery on Friday, March 11, was suspended this week thanks to the intervention of the Mexican government, the Austrian Embassy in Mexico announced on Thursday, March 10. The item, a carved stone ballgame yoke presumably from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Not content to have offended Panama last week by having likened its foreign minister to the Spanish Inquisition for rejecting his proposed ambassador, disgraced university professor and accused sexual assailant Pedro Salmerón Sanginés, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — always the diplomat (NOT) — insulted the government of Austria on Monday, Feb. 7, calling it “selfish”
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XINHUA As of Monday, Sept. 27, Israel will lift its covid-19 travel ban for Mexico, the Israeli Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday, Sept. 20. Notwithstanding, the existing ban on Israelis flying to Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey will remain intact, the ministry said. Israeli citizens and permanent residents who want to travel to the three countries must
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. envoy Ken Salazar, along with 16 other then-ambassador-designates, presented diplomatic credentials to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in a solemn ceremony at the National Palace on Tuesday, Sept. 14, just three days after Salazar’s arrival in the country. After the ceremony, in which Salazar was the last to present credentials due
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Oct. 26, is Austria’s official national day, but because of the still-surging covid-19 pandemic, Austrian Ambassador to Mexico Franz Josef Kuglitsch and his wife Maria Kuglitsch will not be offering their traditional diplomatic reception to mark the day this year. Notwithstanding, Kuglitsch, who will be retiring and returning home to Vienna in January, did send out
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By RICH GRANT It’s hard to pinpoint the attraction of Billy the Kid. Viewed in one light, he was probably a psychopath who gunned down a sheriff and two (maybe three) deputies in cold blood, as well as some other assorted enemies. He was an outlaw, a rustler, a hired gun and a murderer, who was himself shot dead at
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Less than a month after a contentious snap election spurred by a major corruption scandal, Austria’s still-de facto Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his conservative, Christian-democratic People’s Party are in the midst of cautiously measuring potential new alliances, wavering between a weakened far-right Freedom Party (Kurz’s former partner, which was at the heart of the scandal and nearly
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