The Big Freeze: Time for US-Mexico Energy Cooperation
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO MLK III at Guerrero Homage Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of U.S. civil rights activist MLK, Jr., was the keynote speaker Sunday, Feb. 14, at the homage paid to the memory of Mexico’s second president, Vicente Guerrero. Guerrero was killed 190 years ago at Cuilápa, Oaxaca. Guerrero, a descendant of African slaves brought to Mexico,
Read moreArgentine President Set to Visit Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Argentine President Alberto Fernández is slated to pay a whirlwind visit to Mexico on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at the invitation of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). According to sources inside the presidential residence of the National Palace, Fernández will attend a bicentennial ceremony marking the promugation of the Plan de Iguala,
Read moreUS Embassy Honors Black Women Lawmakers
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Throughout the entire month of February — Black History Month in the United States — the U.S. Embassy in Mexico will be paying homage to that nation’s female lawmakers of color with a giant banner recognizing the 25 African-American women currently in Congress, including Vice President Kamal Harris, who now presides over the U.S.
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Read moreUS Envoy Heading Home on Presidential Inauguration Day
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau announced Friday, Jan. 8, that he and his family will be returning home to the United States on Jan. 20. “With the change of government in the United States on Jan. 20, my term as ambassador to Mexico will come to a close,” Landau said in a tweet.
Read moreLandau Calls Siege on US Capitol ‘Unacceptable’
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau said Thursday, Jan. 7, that the assault on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. was “unacceptable.” “There is a clear line between political protest and dissidence, on one hand, and violence and intimidation, on the other,” Landau said on his official government Twitter account. “The events that
Read moreAustria Fêtes National Day Virtually
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Oct. 26, is Austria’s official national day, but because of the still-surging covid-19 pandemic, Austrian Ambassador to Mexico Franz Josef Kuglitsch and his wife Maria Kuglitsch will not be offering their traditional diplomatic reception to mark the day this year. Notwithstanding, Kuglitsch, who will be retiring and returning home to Vienna in January, did send out
Read moreAMLO’s UN Gaff
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a way of going off script when he is before an audience. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, he did it again when presenting his internet video discourse to the United Nations General Assembly. After patting himself and his government on the back for transitioning Mexico from a progressive international economy
Read moreNew Canadian Envoy Assumes Duties in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Graeme C. Clark on Tuesday, Sept. 22, presented diplomatic credentials on to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) accrediting himself as Canada’s new ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Mexico. After meeting with the Mexican president at the National Palace, Clark stated that “it is an honor and a pleasure for me to represent
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