XINHUA California rock climber Brad Gobright died after falling off a mountain in northern Mexico, according to media reports on Friday, Nov. 29. Gobright was performing an ascent of the Sendero Luminoso route in the El Potrero Chico area with climber Aidan Jacobson of Phoenix, Arizona, before both of them fell. Jacobson crashed into a bush, which stopped him from
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XINHUA … The 2020 Major League Soccer (MLS) All-Star Game will feature MLS All-Stars against the Mexican league All-Stars…
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL ,,, Yosemite National Park is one of those places that you have to experience in person…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Twice in the past week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has mentioned the historically obscure existence of a civilian paramilitary group known as Los Polkos. “Probably many don’t even know who they are,” AMLO said during one of his early morning press conferences, “but it surely seems they’re back.” The mention of Los Polkos
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An event that went almost unnoticed in the Mexican media on Thursday, April 4, was the meeting between World Trade Organization (WTO) director general Roberto Azevêdo and Mexican Economy Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín. The main reason why this meeting was not given the press coverage that it should have been afforded was because it was overshadowed by the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ninety years ago today, on March 4, 1929, Mexican history took a turn to become the nation it is today. Modern Mexican history began with the foundation of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), a political organization that would change name in 1940 to the Party of the Mexican Revolution and in 1945 to what it is today
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. (On Jan. 25, Ambassador Wayne offered a conference on bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, innovation and workforce development at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute’s Innovative Forum. This is a transcript of that presentation.) During my years as
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump has ordered the deployment of 3,750 additional troops to the border with Mexico, which will bring the total number to 4,350, the Pentagon announced on Sunday, Feb. 3. The soldiers, who will be stationed primarily in California, will be deployed for three months to provide assistance to border
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s new program to have asylum seekers await outside the United States while their cases are being reviewed went into effect on Friday, Jan. 25. Faced with thousands of Central American migrants that have arrived at the southern U.S border in recent months, many in massive organized caravans, and with
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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