OPINION By ENRIQUE KRUAZE The great Hungarian theoretician György Lukács was a member of the intellectual circle of German socialist Max Weber and was therefore well aware of the famous reflection of the master: “Whoever seeks the salvation of his soul and that of others must not do so through the path of politics, whose tasks, which are very opposed
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By MARK LORENZANA I was only supposed to write about an update on WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who is still detained in Russia. I have covered Griner extensively in this column, and I’ve regularly heard and read negative comments about the WNBA star, even from some friends. One of the biggest arguments I’ve read — and heard from friends
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By MARK LORENZANA There has been a lot of soccer news lately. Two columns ago, I wrote about a particularly bad stretch for Mexican soccer: how the Mexican Women’s National Soccer Team went winless in the recently concluded CONCACAF W championship despite hosting the tournament here in Mexico, about how Mexico’s U-20 National Men’s Soccer Team suffered a shocking defeat
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Egyptian Ambassador to Mexico Klaled Abdelrahaman Abdellatif Shamaa and his wife Radwa Abd el Aziz hosted a diplomatic reception at their Bosques de Chapultepec residence on Tuesday, July 19, to commemorate the anniversary of the 1952 military coup that led to the end of the Egyptian monarchy and the birth of the modern republic. In a brief
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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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As millions of people around the world commemorate the 78th anniversary of the heroic sacrifices of World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy on Monday, June 6, we at Pulse News Mexico want to join in paying our respects to the more than 160,000 Allied troops who landed along that 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The British government on Friday, May 20, announced that it has begun preliminary negotiations with Mexico to establish a bilateral free-trade agreement. According to British Trade Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, using as a template the European Union-Mexico agreement that was negotiated over two decades ago, the United Kingdom, which ceased to be included in that
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By RICH GRANT It is forever Christmas at McKonkey’s Ferry Inn. The dining room in this lovely tavern, located on the banks of the Delaware River, 42 miles upstream from Philadelphia, is always decorated as it would have been on Christmas night, 1776, when George Washington had his dinner here. As Washington dined, 2,400 of his men assembled outside along
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 3,000 Mexicans — including three billionaires and a former close advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — have been implicated in the so-called Pandora Papers, a trove of more than 11.8 million documents collected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that exposes secretive offshore accounts that allowed government leaders, financial tycoons
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 15, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1807 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
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