Navigating Mexico: Article 33
Mexicans and foreigners in Mexico alike love to make reference to the country’s Article 33, a clause in the constitution that prohibits non-Mexicans from being involved in internal national affair
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Mexico’s Emblematic Virgin of Guadalupe
BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS She is the patron saint of Mexico and the focal point of the world’s most visited Christian pilgrimage site. Her image is seen in virtually every Mexican Catholic church and is even caricaturized in hip teenage accessories ranging from school backpacks to chic little blouses. And yet, for all her omnipresent influence in Mexican culture, the story
Read moreMexico’s Golden Flowers of the Dead
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the ubiquitous images of painted skeletons and sugar skulls that abound across Mexico this time of year might be a bit off-putting for visitors from other countries, the golden orange color of thousands of marigold (cempasúchitl) flowers that line Avenida Reforma and decorate the omnipresent ofrendas (altars to the deceased) at least give a cheery
Read moreMexico Pays Homage to its own ‘Fighting Irish’
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Monday, Sept. 12, Mexico pays homage to 83 Irish immigrants who fought beside Mexican soldiers in the 1846 invasion of Mexico by the United States. The Saint Patrick Brigade, as this martyred group of Irish soldiers came to be known, had originally been drafted into the U.S. Army by General Zachary Taylor to invade Mexico in
Read moreMexico’s Historic Tolerance of Mass Murders
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Perhaps never, in its almost 135 years of history, had the Mexican town of San José de Gracia become national news, as it did back in March of this year, when social networks spread the execution of a group of people in the old revolutionary way: on a wall, in front of a platoon. But the
Read moreCatholic Clergy Responds to Protestant Group’s Defense of AMLO
By KELIN DILLON Just days after Protestant Christian leader and president of the National Confraternity of Christian and Evangelical Churches (Confraternice) Arturo Farela Gutiérrez spoke out in defense of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “hugs, not bullets” policy for addressing violence and publicly criticized the Catholic Church as “setting the country on fire,” members of the Mexican Catholic
Read moreProtestant Leader Defends AMLO against Catholic Church Criticisms
By KELIN DILLON After repeated tension between the Catholic Church and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) throughout the latter’s presidency, the president of the National Confraternity of Christian and Evangelical Churches (Confraternice), Arturo Farela Gutiérrez. has spoken out against the Church’s repeated distancing from López Obrador, claiming that it’s looking to “set the country on fire” through the
Read moreSeven Things to Love about Todos Santos
By SHERRY SPITSNAUGLE Motorcycles gunned their engines on a busy street of Todos Santos, in Mexico’s coastal state of Baja California Sur, as I bit into a juicy pork taco smothered in tomatillo, followed by a healthy swig of icy Pacifico beer. A friend and I sat at a cardboard table on the small patio of Tacos Isaac, just yards
Read moreJudge Suspends Mexico City Bullfighting Indefinitely
PULSE NEWS MEXICO After months of legal battles and parliamentarian evasion the topic, a Mexico City judge on Friday, June 10, ordered the definite suspension of all bullfighting in the city. Although just one day earlier, another municipal judge had ordered the suspension of a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital while a lawsuit challenging its legality proceeded,
Read moreThe Bullfighting Beef: A Whole Lot of Bull
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The two-front legal battle against bullfighting in Mexico was postponed from last week to Thursday, June 9. In essence, a municipal judge has allowed a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital to continue while a lawsuit challenging its legality moves forward. In both cases, bullfights, usually held at the 42,000-seat capacity monumental Mexico City’s
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