By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s inflation rate soared to 6.1 percent in April, its highest level since the year 2000, according to figures released on Friday, May 7, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The federal government’s inflation rate is based on the prices of the country’s basic food basket, food and household products that
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador formally apologized to the nation’s indigenous Maya people on Tuesday, May 4, for the multiple abuses committed against them over the course of the last five centuries, but the local Maya were having none of it. Speaking in a ceremonial event attended by both Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei and selected pro-government
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Corn, or maize, has been a key element in the Mexican diet since pre-Columbian times, and even today it is the core grain in most traditional Mexican recipes. First domesticated by indigenous people in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago, maize also played a key role in pre-Hispanic pantheon of deities, with the maize god, Hun Hunahpu,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS .. Expendio de Maíz offers a taste of true Guerrero flavors, all served up fresh in a hole-in-the-wall bistro with no menu and no price lists…
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Aside from the dance showcases, the festival encompasses a wide variety of events, which build momentum for the culminating Monday performances
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The change over of presidents in Mexico is always a formal event, and this time was no exception, except for the fact that the style of doing things has changed. Some, if not all, of the stiff formality of yesteryear was absent in the proceedings that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The real change of administrations
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although maize has been the basic food staple in Mexico since pre-Columbian times, nearly 55 percent of the 43 million tons of corn consumed nationally each year are, in fact, imported. Much of the corn comes from the United States, but Brazil and Argentina are also contributors, and there is a lot of concern nationally as to
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