By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) helped Guatemala in the exploration of the submerged Maya city in Lake Atitlán. The underwater site, which sank mysteriously into the lake hundreds of years ago, includes a complex of temples, plazas, houses and stelae, which had never before been seen by modern scientists. The joint
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico hosted a daylong celebration of the festival of Nowrūz, an ancient spring holiday, at Mexico City’s Lincoln Park on Saturday, March 19. The open-air celebration, which was hosted by Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov, his wife Kamala Talibova and their daughter Faray Talibli, included a performance of traditional Azeri dances by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Thursday, March 17, Mexico City’s Franz Mayer Museum opened a new exhibit of Chinese porcelain and decorative art that focuses on the creative trends of that country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The exhibition, composed of 189 works from the museum’s own collection and from pieces on loan from four private collections,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, March 21, is an official holiday in Mexico in observation of the 1806 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 that served as the backdrop for modernization and urbanization. Juárez,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Jewish community across Mexico and around the world observed the start of the Purim festival on the eve of Wednesday, March 16. In the Hebrew calendar, Purim is an annual holiday, falling on the 14th day of the month of Adar (the 12th month in the calendar). Purim, often referred to as “Jewish
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 7, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (two days late this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend (hard to do in the times of covid-19) or just a opportunity
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BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS She is the patron saint of Mexico and the focal point of the world’s most visited Christian pilgrimage site. Her image is seen in virtually every Mexican Catholic church and is even caricaturized in hip teenage accessories ranging from school backpacks to chic little blouses. And, yet, for all her omnipresent influence in Mexican culture, the story
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was a day of absolute jubilation and unrestrained celebration for Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov and his wife Kamala Talibova when they hosted a diplomatic reception at the Presidente Intercontinental Hotel Polanco on Friday, Nov. 5, to commemorate the first anniversary of their reunited country after nearly three decades of occupation of a fifth of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If the thought of nighttime excursions to the cemetery, public altars to the dead on practically every street corner and sugar skulls with your name written on them in icing gives you the creeps, Mexico is probably the wrong place for you to be this time of year. But if the reaffirmation of life through the celebration
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Like most embassies in Mexico these days, the Azerbaijani chancellery was unable to host a diplomatic reception this year to mark its independence day. But that didn’t keep Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov from commemorating the Caucasian nation’s 30th anniversary, albeit a few days late. At the request of Mexico’s National Academy of History and Geography,
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