By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, warned Monday, Feb. 14, that denying permit renewals to the Spanish-owned Iberdrola energy company would have “devastating consequences” for the companies it supplies. Iberdrola, one of several private Spanish-owned energy firms that have borne the brunt of President Andrés Manuel López
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By CAROLINE BRENNAN The Parroquia Francesa Cristo Resucitado y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, a Catholic church located on Avenida Horacio in Mexico City’s bucolic suburb of Polanco, is well known in the area for being a place of worship, full of spirituality, peace and faith. Run by monks from the French religious order the Community of Saint John, the Parroquia,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Private Hospital Expropriations Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) published an executive order on Friday, March 27, awarding the federal government the right to “make use of all medical sectors, public, social and private, in the regions affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” In short, private hospitals may be privatized for pandemic use only. The decree, published
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The cancellation of the Constellation Brands brewery construction in Mexicali has so many political and economic offshoots that they are impossible to cover in one journalistic article. But here are some of them: The people of Mexicali voted against the brewery not because they do not want foreign investment in their region, but because the Constellation Brands
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Corona “Beerus” Brewery Nixed at Border A poll carried out by Mexico’s Interior Secretariat (SeGob) over the past weekend (Saturday, March 21, and Sunday, March 22) resulted in an overwhelming vote against the establishment of Corona beer manufacturer Constellation Brands mega-brewery in the Mexican border city of Mexicali, on the Mexican side of Calexico and Imperial Valley,
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By RICH GRANT WELLINGTON – The Lonely Planet travel guide books once called Wellington the “coolest capital city in the world,” an accolade the town loved so much, they made it their official slogan. And why not? New Zealand’s capital city is a pretty cool place, and the 300,000 people who live here know it. More than a quarter of
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By RICH GRANT It is forever Christmas at McKonkey’s Ferry Inn. The dining room in this lovely tavern, located on the banks of the Delaware River, 42 miles upstream from Philadelphia, is always decorated as it would have been on Christmas night, 1776, when George Washington had dinner here. As Washington dined, 2,400 of his men assembled outside along the
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By RICH GRANT It was a wild, cold, blowing October afternoon in Charlevoix, Michigan, and as I crossed the street I heard a woman say to her friend, “Is that snow? Oh, thank heavens! Now we can finally get our town back.” I knew what she meant. I was a stranger here, but even on a first visit,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) defended a decision by the nation’s Supreme Court (SCJN) to not return billions of pesos in tax refunds to Grupo Modelo, the nation’s largest producer of beer. Speaking during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 29, the president said that the
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