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Christ Church Parish Offers Artisan Crafts, Tribute to Tradition

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In keeping with a tradition that dates back over a century and a half, Mexico City’s Christ Church Parish hosted its annual Christmas bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 3. Heralded in with a stirring parade of Scottish piobaireachd by the Saint Patrick’s Battalion Pipe and Drum Band, the eight-hour bazaar was as much a tribute to pageantry and

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National Auditorium Presents Jarocho-Riverdance Fusion Ballet

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Twenty years ago, British-born dance director Richard O’Neal, who spent five years as the assistant director of “Riverdance,” the internationally acclaimed dance phenomenon based on Irish folk traditions, decided to use his stage and choreographic knowhow to create a Riverdance-like spectacle that showcased Mexican ballet based on the rousing, foot-stomping dance style known as jarocho, native to

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Britain Opens Free-Trade Talks with Mexico

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The British government on Friday, May 20, announced that it has begun preliminary negotiations with Mexico to establish a bilateral free-trade agreement. According to British Trade Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, using as a template the European Union-Mexico agreement that was negotiated over two decades ago, the United Kingdom, which ceased to be included in that

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Financial Times Calls on AMLO to ‘Learn from his Mistakes’

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF London’s esteemed Financial Times (FT) newspaper on Sunday, March 6, called on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to “learn from his mistakes” and “to rethink his policies” that are dragging the country back to the 1960s. “López Obrador was famous for defying political gravity,” the world’s leading  business publication said in an

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