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Mexican Film Legend Irma Serrano Dead at 89

PULSE NEWS MEXICO Once-internationally renowned Mexican film star and diva Irma Serrano died Wednesday, March 1, from a heart attack at age 89, the National Actors Association reported. Serrano, better known as “La Tigresa” (“The Tigress”), began her career as a singer of ranchero music in the early 1960s, and then expanded into the Mexican film industry as a powerful

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Nine Killed in Multivehicle Crash Near Acapulco

XINHUA At least nine people were killed Wednesday, July 27, after multiple vehicles crashed in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero state, just outside Acapulco, local authorities said. According to a preliminary report from state security officials, the accident occurred around 6:35 a.m. local time along the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo Highway, in Guerrero’s Costa Grande region. Apparently, the driver of a private

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Eighth Journalist Killed This Year in Mexico

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICOI STAFF On Tuesday, March 15, Mexican reporter Armando Linares, director of the Monitor Michoacán news outlet, became the eighth journalist to be murdered so far this year in Mexico in a torrent of killings that has earned the government international condemnation. Linares was shot dead in the city of Zitacuaro, Michoacan, outside his home, that

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Navigating Mexico: Day of the Dead Goes Global

By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE  PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Mexico’s two-day Day of the Dead celebration (Nov. 1 and Nov. 2) has always been an intricate element of the national culture, taking its roots in pre-Hispanic observations and incorporating Christian tweets under the watchful eyes of the Catholic Church during colonial times. But how did celebrating the Day of the

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