Mexico’s Fashion Icons By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Always one step ahead of the latest fashion trend, Mexican handbag designer Jaime Ibiza has dedicated his latest collection to the women of Mexico who have set the style for the nation to become Mexico’s fashion icons. His new collection, appropriately called Iconos (Icons), is a homage to seven of Mexico’s most important fashion-conscious
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican film and television star Grettel Valdez — of “Buscando a Frida” and “Sobre las Huellas” fame — will open the first-ever Queretaro Fashion Show (QFS) in that state’s capital on Saturday, Oct. 30. The catwalk, which will be held inside the Centro de Artes Queretaro (Ceart), will showcase the latest designs of four Mexican fashion houses,
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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Vivan los Muertos! By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Day of the Dead (well, actually, it’s two days, but most people just clump the duo holidays under the same moniker) is a vibrant part of the country’s rich and multifaceted culture, drawing on a combination of pre-Hispanic and colonial heritage. An uncanny celebration of life and a tribute to the memory of
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to a new ruling by Mexico’s federal court, all children between the ages of 12 to 17 will be able to vaccinated against covid-19 with the vaccine approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) for use in minors, Pfizer-BioNtech, going into effect on Thursday, Oct. 14. The order will adapt Mexico’s
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Mexico Has Gone Green, but I Still See Red
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By KELIN DILLON Three years after Mexico dismantled its system for the acquisition and distribution of medicines, the country has failed to replace it, resulting in the government only buying 29.3 percent of the 1.5 billion scheduled medicines for 2021, and having only distributed 6.8 percent of what it planned to for the year. According to figures from the Secretariat
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It is one of the biggest buzzwords in the beauty industry today: anti-aging. But Michael Myslabodski, general director of the F Cells medical laboratories in Mexico City’s upscale Interlomas neighborhood, says that, for the most part, products and treatments that claim to be “anti-aging” are in fact misrepresenting themselves. “Most aesthetic medicine treatments that are promoted as
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS They are a staple in nearly every college dorm and a comfort food for millions of weary Mexicans who are too hungry to cook after a long day of work and fighting Mexico City traffic. But if Mexico’s food police — in this case, Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) Director Ricardo Sheffield Padilla — has his way,
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