By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Few, if any, territorial disputes are historically simple or cut-and-dry. Most are shrouded in complex webs of nationalism and misinformation, coupled with the raw emotions of human suffering and violence on both sides of the conflict. But the ongoing skirmish between Azerbaijan and Armenia, although rooted in centuries of mutual distrust and ethnic divisions, really boils down
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s a sputtering war that has been going on now for nearly three decades — ever since Armenian troops invaded the Azerbaijani territorial enclave of Nargorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts and forcefully expelled 800,000 Azeri farmers and their families from their homes in a vicious and unlawful landgrab of brute force in 1991. The barbarous assault of Karabakh
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XINHUA The epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic “is moving from Europe toward the Americas,” Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Mexico, warned on Wednesday, April 22. The Americas have had “a bit more time to prepare for what is coming,” Morales Fuhrimann said via videoconference in Mexico City, noting the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The cancellation of the Constellation Brands brewery construction in Mexicali has so many political and economic offshoots that they are impossible to cover in one journalistic article. But here are some of them: The people of Mexicali voted against the brewery not because they do not want foreign investment in their region, but because the Constellation Brands
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — When Tural Ganjaliyev was just 12 years old, he and his entire family were forcefully expelled from the only home they had ever known by invading Armenian troops. Ganjaliyev and his family were among the 800,000 Azerbaijanis (nearly half of whom were children) who were brutally evicted from their houses and land by Russian-backed
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BY RICH GRANT They say that no one buildings cities like Prague anymore, but that’s not quite true. Most of the gorgeous baroque, “Old Europe” city you see in the heart of Dresden, Germany, today is brand new, even though it appears to look centuries old. From medieval-looking back alleys to grand cathedrals, from an impressive baroque opera house to
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BY RICH GRANT It was winter and I’d had enough of it. Too much snow; too much cold. I needed a summer in Europe. I needed to walk in twilight past splashing fountains, to linger over a good meal at an outdoor cafe, to see flowers and statuary and history and art, all placed around me, for no reason except
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Newly arrived Finnish Ambassador to Mexico Päivi M. Pohjanheimo hosted a diplomatic reception at her residence on Friday, Dec. 6, to mark her country’s 102nd independence anniversary. On the diplomatic plane, Mexico and Finland have maintained friendly relations for over eight decades, since 1936, when the two nations signed a bilateral Treaty of Friendship in Washington D.C.,
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By RICH GRANT … It’s almost as simple, and quite often considerably cheaper, to island hop around Greece on public ferries like the locals do…
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By RICH GRANT A lot of people in the travel industry were surprised way back in 2005 when the “Lonely Planet” guidebook selected Croatia as the world’s Number One dream vacation site. Indeed, up until that time, the once war-torn region of the former Yugoslav Republic had gained far more international media attention for its ethnic tensions and wartime atrocities
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