By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Remember a few years back when there were constant references to Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner’s “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”? His premise was that beyond what most of us grew up believing about intelligence and notions of IQ, that intelligence was basically about academic smarts. His definition of intelligence pointed out that
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The exact number of indigenous people in Mexico is uncertain, although, according to the last population census in 2020, it is estimated to be about 16 million. Estimates from civil organizations speak of a higher number. This population is concentrated in 56 different ethnic groups located throughout the country, creating a diverse cultural mosaic
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 10,000 Mexican families attended the Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City on Sunday, Oct. 31. The celebration of life and death parade, which included an upbeat procession of costumed marchers and alebrijes floats down Mexico City’s Avenida Reforma, constituted the first large event in the capital since the onset of the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If the thought of nighttime excursions to the cemetery, public altars to the dead on practically every street corner and sugar skulls with your name written on them in icing gives you the creeps, Mexico is probably the wrong place for you to be this time of year. But if the reaffirmation of life through the celebration
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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
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Cancelled last year as a precautionary measure due to the covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City’s Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) parade is back on track this year. The parade — a recent phenomenon popularized by Hollywood-style movies (specifically, the 2015 James Bond thriller “Spectre”) — is a mobile collection of
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Vivan los Muertos! By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Day of the Dead (well, actually, it’s two days, but most people just clump the duo holidays under the same moniker) is a vibrant part of the country’s rich and multifaceted culture, drawing on a combination of pre-Hispanic and colonial heritage. An uncanny celebration of life and a tribute to the memory of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexico City government will host a gala Day of the Dead parade on Sunday, Oct. 31, the city’s Culture Secretariat announced Monday, Oct. 11. The parade, which will begin at noon in the capital’s central plaza Zócalo and proceed 8.7 kilometers up Avenida Juárez and Paseo de la Reforma to the Campo Marte
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a habit of going off halfcocked (so much so that one has to wonder if he even has a full one, but that’s another column altogether), but his latest plan to host a massive celebration for Mexico’s Revolution Day anniversary in the Zócalo on Nov. 20 certainly ranks among
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of an ongoing outreach program for foreign diplomats accredited in Mexico, Ambassador Mireya Téran organized a private tour of Mexico City’s Folk Art Museum (MAP) on Monday, May 17. The tour was offered in both Spanish and English to the wives of ambassadors and other foreign diplomats, and was conducted under strict covid-19 sanitation protocols.
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