By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the ubiquitous images of painted skeletons and sugar skulls that abound across Mexico this time of year might be a bit off-putting for visitors from other countries, the golden orange color of thousands of marigold (cempasúchitl) flowers that line Avenida Reforma and decorate the omnipresent ofrendas (altars to the deceased) at least give a cheery
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s Franz Mayer Museum opened an exhibit on Wednesday, Sept. 29, of works portraying the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The 82-piece collection, titled “Relatos Artísticos de la Conquista” (“Artist Tales of the Conquest”), presents different perspectives and artistic interpretations on the fall of the Mexica (Aztec) civilization of Tenochtitlán from the 16th, 17th
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A 1,500-piece exhibition of Mexican history titled “La Grandeza de México” (“The Grandeur of Mexico”) was inaugurated on Monday, Sept. 27, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The exhibit, which celebrates 200 years of the consummation of the country’s independence, a date commemorated that same day with parades and a gala reenactment of the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Mexican Independence Bicentennial Anniversary! Sure, most Mexicans still consider Sept. 16, 1810, as the nation’s Independence Day, but in point of fact, the country really gained its sovereignty more than 11 years later. And so, Monday, Sept. 27, is the day that Mexico as an independent nation actually turns 200. For all practical and festooning purposes,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Monday, Sept. 27, marks the 200th anniversary of the Consummation of Mexico’s independence, an act that was framed by the entry of the Trigarante Army, led by Army General Agustín de Iturbide, into Mexico City in 1821. To commemorate the date, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the National Defense
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An auction of 17 alleged pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts was cancelled just hours before it was slated to be held on Thursday, Sept. 16, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Sunday, Sept. 19. The auction, which had been organized by the internet sales site Casa Bertolami Fine Arts in Rome was halted
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican author, historian and journalist Enrique Krauze was presented with the third edition of the Spanish Order of History Award by King Felipe VI of Spain on Wednesday, July 7. In a solemn ceremony at the Monastery of San Lorenzo at El Escorial, just outside Madrid, the Spanish monarch presented a diploma and a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of a broader commemoration of 75 years of bilateral diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Mexico, the Swiss Embassy in Mexico City is sponsoring a 26-piece exhibit of watch and clock designs at the Franz Mayer Museum. The exhibit, titled “Design around the Clock,” presents pieces of watchmaking made between 2015 and 2020.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s renowned Tulum archeological site in the Yucatan Peninsula state of Quintana Roo is set to reopen to the public as of Wednesday, May 12, the government’s Culture Secretariat announced Tuesday, May 11, through its subsidiary National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The site, the only Maya temple to be built along the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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