The Kiss Heard Round the World
The unsolicited kiss video went viral and so was the ensuing scandal in Spain
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Read moreOn the Mark: Warriors Are Champions Again, Thanks to Curry
By MARK LORENZANA The game was essentially over. Over in the sense that the stunned and dejected Celtics fans that filled the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, were only waiting for the final buzzer to sound so they could watch in agony as the visiting Golden State Warriors celebrated their fourth championship on the night of Thursday, June 16, at
Read moreUS Beats Mexico in Cincinnati World Cup Qualifying Match
XINHUA Late game goals from Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie provided the United States an unexpected 2-0 victory over Mexico in Cincinnati on Friday, Nov. 12, allowing the team to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Mexico had begun the match brightly, with the United States’ Zack Steffen blocking several potential goals from its opponents. But the U.S. team
Read moreMexico Given Two-Game Fan-Ban for Homophobic Chant
XINHUA Mexico will be forced to play their next two home World Cup soccer qualifiers behind closed doors because of homophonic chants from fans, FIFA said on Monday, Nov. 1. The world football’s governing body also fined the Mexican football federation 100,000 Swiss francs ($110,000) for several incidents during World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Honduras in September. The ruling
Read moreMexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO Gradual Business Reopenings Begin Ever so trepidly and not without fear that it might not be the right move to make, Mexico City and 16 Mexican states will begin gradual reopening for business as of Monday, June 16, after a harrowing 90-day lockdown that began on March 15. City and state authorities have warned that if there
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By RICARDO CASTILLO USMCA Is a Done Deal Happiness is a good trade deal. And a great Christmas gift for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) since it affords the country a potentially secure economic future once all of the minor hurdles have been cleared. The passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, or T-MEC, in Spanish), which was finally
Read moreSoccer Rolls Right Over Mexican Politics
By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican election got rolled over by soccer as of Thursday, June 14, only two days after the third and last of presidential debates. Most analysts and commentators nitpicked the claims, accusations, outright lies and statements of grandeur by some of the candidates. For most, if not all, political observers the end of the debates meant the end
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