By MATT SEDDON Mexico City’s Angel of Independence Monument is now covered with political graffiti. It is now both a witness to the hopes that come with independence and to the lack of independence women in Mexico have due to violence. The protests that included spray painting the Angel were instigated by allegations of horrendous rapes of underage girls by
Read more
By MATT SEDDON Rector of Christ Church Mexico City The most common thing that archaeologists discover when they excavate is ash. Before I was an Anglican priest, I was an archaeologist. I excavated many different sites. Some were more than 6,000 years old, others only a few hundred years old. And I can unequivocally say that the most common thing
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although it is generally perceived as a minor holiday, the observance of Candelaria Day, or Candlemas, on Feb. 2 is in fact a longstanding festival in Mexico that officially marks the end of the Christmas and Epiphany season. In Mexico, Candelaria is closely interconnected with another post-Christmas holiday, the Three King’s Day, when not only do children
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Monday, Jan. 28, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opened a political can of worms in the form of the introduction of his “Cartilla Moral,” aka, “The Gospel according to Saint Andrés,” a step-by-step guidebook on how to live a moral life, at peace with nature, your family, your neighbors and humanity as a whole.
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Santa Claus may be back in the North Pole catching up on lost sleep and giving his reindeer and elves a well-deserved winter vacation, but here in Mexico the Christmas season isn’t over yet. Jan. 6 – that celebrated Twelfth day of Christmas – officially marks the Epiphany, the day when Christ was visited by the Magi,
Read more
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF It’s an ideal setting for a Christmas pageant: the little colonial town of Tepotzotlán, just an hour northwest of Mexico City. Sometimes referred to as the capital of the uniquely Mexican Churrigueresque style of architecture, the 17th and early 18th century buildings of Tepotzotlán, with their gilded, flourished, curlicued and cherub-topped buildings, indeed offer
Read more