By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Echoing the tone of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech one day earlier in Tehran, Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Taghi Hosseini took advantage of his national day reception on Tuesday, Feb. 12, to bask the United States and underscore his government’s unflinching commitment to the values of the now-40-year-old Islamic Revolution. “The 1979 Islamic Revolution marked a
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A look at the freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the United States and European Union: The World Trade Organization (WTO) Round is dead, trade wars are alive, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is rapidly Pakistan-izing while Asia’s core and its Far East are slowing
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s renowned for its transparent finances and solid economic growth (an expected 2.9 percent for 2018, and a predicted 2.2 percent for 2019), recognized universally for it superb public education and gender equality (in 1906, it was the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote and stand as candidates in national elections),
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By JACQUES GOODLOE Special to Pulse News Mexico The idea of an “axis of the willing against illegal migration” composed of Italy, Germany and Austria has been proposed by Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s right populist leader. He spoke about this with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian conservative who shares the Austrian chancellor’s views on tighter border controls. Kurz said fighting illegal
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. President Donald Trump’s claimed that his reason for slapping Canada, Mexico and the European Union with tariffs on steel and aluminum was a matter of “national security.” Definitely, the response from all of the nations in question — friendly allies all of them — is that Trump’s reason is pure, unadulterated humbug. None of the affected and definitely offended leaders liked
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just weeks after the first draft of the updated global accord between the European Union and Mexico was approved, EU Ambassador to Mexico Klaus Rudischhauser marked the 64th edition of Europe Day – the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration that united French and German coal and steel production under a common high authority and set the
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By AARON DENISON Special to Pulse News Mexico Ever since 1987, when Turkey’s eighth president, Turgut Ozal, first submitted an application, Ankara has been courting European Union (EU) membership. But, until now, Turkey has failed to convince the EU and its member states that it is fit to be a part of the European community. There are many factors that
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The EU has earmarked more than 158,000 euros to help 1,640 children and 41 teachers in the southern state of Oaxaca
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