By KELIN DILLON Mexico announced Thursday, Jan. 14, that it is working to create a proposal with other nations in the Group of 20 (G20), an international group consisting of 19 countries and the European Union, to limit censorship by private social media companies following U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s controversial removal from several online platforms. Trump found himself without
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Christian Dior once said that “after women, flowers are God’s most divide creations.” Dior loved flowers, having grown up in villa in the heart of Granville, France, where he and his mother would spend hours cultivating their fragrant rose gardens along the Normandy coast. And it was Dior’s inherent love of flowers that inspired his first major
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In response to a request from Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), on Wednesday, Nov. 11, the French Embassy here presented the Mexican Red Cross with a check for the some of 60,000 euros — roughly 1.45 million pesos — the French Embassy said. The French donation will be used to help families affected by
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The year 2020 is finally getting ready to wrap up, and none too soon for most of us, what with the covid-19 pandemic, the global economic turndown and — lest we forget — the now-almost universal practice of WFH (work from home). Yes, we are all going to be celebrating the end of 2020 come Dec. 31,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF France’s new ambassador to Mexico, Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian, assumed his duties on Thursday, Oct. 15, after presenting copies of his diplomatic credentials to Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) Protocol Director Juan Carlos Lara Armienta, along with SRE Europe Director General Bernardo Aguilar Calvo. Asvazadourian, a career diplomat with more than 35 years of experience under his belt, has
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As the world unites to fight off the pandemic of coronavirus, yet another plague is threatening the earth and mankind: the threat of the loss of the world’s bee populations. Bees are the world’s chief pollinators, fertilizing about a third of all the food we eat, and 80 percent of all flowering plants. Collectively, they account for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO If it’s Cinco de Mayo – in the United States, of course – it’s time to break out the tequila and celebrate. In Mexico, really, the date is just a faded memory of the 1862 Battle of Puebla against the French, who got walloped by a Mexican indigenous army – a minor speck in Mexican history. But
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Aizerbaijan — When it comes to bone-chilling winds, Chicago has nothing on Baku. Situated on the southern side of the tip of Azerbaijan’s jutting Absheron Peninsula, the ancient Azeri capital is almost constantly battered by chilling, triple-digit-velocity gusts from the Caspian Sea, tempered only by warmer overland breezes from the inland regions of the country to the
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL The Panama Canal — which transverses two oceans through the deep tropical jungles of Central America — is one of the world’s most incredible feats of modern engineering, and the only way to truly appreciate its grandeur is on a cruise ship. The Panama Canal system is considered to be one of the manmade wonders of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … To call Ticuchi a restaurant is a bit of a stretch. It is much more of a tavern than an eatery…
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