OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It has been called Mexico’s culinary Oscars, and for eight groundbreaking seasons, it has been “The Place” to sample some of Mexico City’s best gastronomic offerings. And this year’s edition of Sabor es Polanco, held in the open-air venue of the Campo Marte military base next to the National Auditorium, on Saturday, March 12, and Sunday, March
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The eighth edition of the Sabor es Polanco (Flavor is Polanco) food and drink festival is slated to be held on Saturday, March 12, and Sunday, March 13, at Mexico City’s Campo Marte military camp. More than 75 different restaurants are expected to participate in this, the largest rendition yet of the fair, offering a selection of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After concluding a 13-day investigation into Mexico’s appalling record of disappeared persons — which number more than 95,000 according to government figures — the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) said Friday, Nov. 26, that there is “almost absolute impunity” for those responsible. “As of Friday, more than 95,000 people have been officially
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Saturday, Oct. 16, that his government will begin legalizing undocumented vehicles (mostly, imported from the United States without appropriate permissions) in the country’s northern border states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Baja California Sur. Each car owner will be required to
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XINHUA The surge of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the need for a continentwide legal framework to protect migrant rights, Mexican immigration experts said Monday. Sept. 27. At a seminar on the current Haitian migrant crisis, Alberto Hernandez, president of Mexico’s College of the Northern Border (Colef), which hosted the event, said designing and applying such a continentwide
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Faced with a surging flood of undocumented migrants, mostly from Haiti, at the Del Rio, Texas, border, the U.S. government on Sunday, Sept. 19, closed off the Mexican border in that city indefinitely and began flying some of the illegal immigrants back to their homeland. Yellow tape and government vehicles blocked the path of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Tuesday, Sept. 7, voted unanimously to decriminalize abortion, making the country the most populous in Latin America to permit the procedure. In a landmark decision for the world’s second-largesst predominantly Catholic nation, the SCJN said that the prohibition of abortion violates women’s right to decide the fate of their
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to a nasty freeze in the north of Mexico at the beginning of the year (which brought a whole lot of other trouble along with it) and a long-lasting countrywide drought, more than 360,000 hectares of Mexico’s crop output were ruined in the first six months of 2021, approximately four times the amount lost in the
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