By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After just two years in Mexico, Philippine Ambassador Eduardo José Atienza de Vega will leave the country on Monday, April 23, to assume a new posting as his government’s head of mission in Belgium. During a farewell reception at his Colonia Polanco residence on Friday, April 20, Atienza de Vega was presented a silver tray engraved with
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following article first appeared in the U.S. political website “The Hill” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) U.S. ties with Mexico and Canada touch the daily lives of more Americans than ties between any other two countries in the world. Trade, border connections, tourism, family ties and mutual security concerns link us closely,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just prior to his third monumental blunder last week, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso bragged boisterously to the media that his relation with the White House had never been as good as it had been in those now-seemingly far-away days. Anyone even vaguely familiar with Mexican international relations knows that bilateral relations have been severely strained by U.S.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A group of more than 40 foreign diplomats accredited in Mexico and their spouses toured the country’s renowned Central de Abastos (Ceda), the world’s largest food and flower market, on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The visit, which was coordinated by Ambassador Amanda Mireya Terán Munguía of Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) and hosted by Ceda General Administrator Sergio
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Iran’s ambassador to Mexico, Mohammad Taghi Hosseini, and his wife Afsane Hosseini hosted a diplomatic reception at Mexico City’s Club Naval Norte on Thursday, Feb. 8, to commemorate the 39th anniversary of his nation’s Islamic revolution. Since its independence from the rule of the U.S.-backed regime of After nearly a year of public demonstrations and protests led by
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than four years in Mexico, Jamaican Ambassador Sandra Anita Grant Griffiths will be returning home to Kingston at the end of this month. But before she left, Algerian Ambassador Rabah Hadid and his wife Farida Hadid, in cooperation with the heads of mission of the entire diplomatic corps accredited in Mexico, offered a lavish sit-down
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Two-way trade and investment have continued to grow, with a combined commercial exchange of about $15 billion annually and more than 1,100 Japanese firms with capital holding in Mexico
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Mexico is now Thailand’s second-largest trading partner in Latin America, and combined bilateral trade has more than tripled over the last eight years to reach a volume of $3.4 billion annually
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When Algeria finally gained its independence in July 1962, its people committed themselves to the fundamental values of freedom, sovereignty social justice and democracy
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