By RICARDO CASTILLO A Birds Story Birds of a feather flock together, says the old adage. This week began with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, Jan. 11, visiting part of his “wonderful wall” in Alamo, a township just east to McAllen, along the Mexico-Texas border. He took the occasion to praise Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Did Facebook or Twitter plan to kill the Hunter Biden story? Maybe so, but they accomplished the exact opposite. In other words, more and more people are talking about it and wondering why it was censored in the first place. This is from an article in the Daily Wire by Emily Zanotti: “Twitter’s crackdown on a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Alfaro’s Political Ambitions Squelched Up until last week, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro had been looking a lot like a 2024 presidential hopeful. But then all hell broke loose on his would-be candidacy. It all started with the arrest and apparent murder of a 30-year-old construction worker named Giovanni López at the hands of municipal police in Ixltahuacán
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. During my time in Mexico, I learned about the huge number of U.S. and Canadian citizens who retire there, particularly in placed like San Miguel de Allende, in Guanajuato, and Chapala, in Jalisco. These expats constitute a vibrant community whose members support one another and have long had a positive influence in the country. A few
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pandemic Traffic Lights On Monday, May 11, the federal government will hold an analytical meeting to establish, perhaps as early as Sunday, May 17, what Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called “a sort of traffic light” to start reopening the nation’s economy back to business as usual. AMLO said that municipalities where there are no
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If you are a U.S. tourist visiting Mexico, it’s time to go home! That was the message that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau expressed in a one-hour live, virtual townhall for U.S. citizens transmitted over Facebook on Tuesday, March 31. Despite faulty sound and continuous internet disconnects, Landau and his consular team tried to calm concerns by U.S.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Cristopher Landau will offer an online townhall meeting for U.S. citizens via Facebook on Tuesday, March 31, at 3:30 p.m. During the townhall, Landau will address Mexico’s U.S. community’s concerns regarding the global coronavirus pandemic and participants will have the opportunity to submit questions. Those with a Facebook account will
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that thus far in these coronavirus adventurous times, Mexico has registered only about 120 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 syndrome, and only one death. But in the eyes of Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, now the official government spokesman on the pandemic, the ordeal is just getting started and the projected worse
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Esperanza Gutiérrez Rojano ran like hell out of the plush southern Mexico City Artz Pedregal mall on Wednesday, July 24, a little past 5 p.m., to no avail. Less than a block away, she was stopped by a city policeman and, in no time, she was surrounded by patrol cars. She was laden onto a pick-up converted
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It would seem Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) is irrigating the upcoming presidential elections with a holy hose. Just as they were trying last week to plug a hole with the elimination of two independent presidential hopefuls due to their alleged filing of fake voter credentials, this week INE’s hose has developed a new leak, and it’s a
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