By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov hosted a lavish diplomatic reception and buffet luncheon at Mexico City’s Hotel Presidente Intercontinental on Monday, Nov. 7, to mark the second anniversary of his nation’s liberation from 27 years of Armenian occupation. “It is a great pleasure to welcome all of you to this celebration that commemorates the second anniversary
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Aug. 25, the international streaming platform Netflix released a controversial true-crime series titled “A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair,” which tried to clear the name of the French citizen Florence Cassez and her longtime Mexican boyfriend Israel Vallarta Cisneros, both of whom were arrested in 2005 and charged with possession of illegal firearms, involvement
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By MARK LORENZANA Let’s all give Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez a break. And by “break,” I don’t just mean the current F1 summer break that’s driving (pun definitely intended) all those die-hard motorsports fans crazy right now. A short digression, for those who are not F1 die-hards: What exactly is the F1 summer break? It’s the
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Even though this is something that happened a few weeks ago, it is an issue that I don’t want to let go by unmentioned: Anti-Semitism has reappeared in Mexico’s public life, instigated by the powers that be. And the subject deserves a cautionary reflection. “The day there is not a single Jew left in the world,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, who served as the country’s head of state from 1970 to 1976, died on Friday, July 8, at home in his sleep, sources close to his family reported Saturday, July 9. Echeverría, who was a populist president from the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) turned 100 on Jan.17. On Nov. 14,
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Neither Alejandro Moreno, president of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), not Marko Cortés, head of its conservative National Acton Party (PAN), are willing to budge from their positions, despite the fact that both parties registered a resounding defeat in the country’s June 6 gubernatorial elections. That leaves the Mexican people with only one alternative:
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A group of 13 foreign embassies and international organizations representations accredited in Mexico on Thursday, June 23, expressed their support for Mexico City’s upcoming 44th LGBTQ+ Pride March and the rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer people in Mexico and around the globe. In a written statement, the embassies said that they “reaffirmed the
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As of May 2023, all Mexican tourists traveling to the European Union will be required to first obtain a European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) visa, the EU announced on Wednesday, June 8. The new visa will allow Mexican tourists to visit parts of Europe for up to 90 days at a time and will be
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By RICH GRANT The famous Moulin Rouge of Paris became an inspiration for an Academy Award-winning film and Broadway musical, which is currently appearing in Denver, Colorado, through June 26. So it is no small irony that in 1889, the same year the real Moulin Rouge opened on the edge of the red light district of Pigalle in Paris, way
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced Monday, June 6, that it is cancelling the Gunaa Sicarú wind farm, after five years of struggling to make it operative while battling protests from local residents. In a statement, the CFE said that the project, which was located in the southern central state of Oaxaca, would be canceled along
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