By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) led the country in its traditional Independence Day “Grito” late Tuesday, Sept. 15, but in a ceremony unlike any other due to social distancing measures imposed because of the covid-19 pandemic. The traditional “Viva México” Grito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores) is intended to echo the call
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By RICH GRANT Everyone knows Charleston, South Caroline, is one of United States’ most historic cities, but there’s a lot more than history occupying the town’s 1,600 pre-Revolutionary War buildings, including new breweries, distilleries and clubs. Charleston has become a Williamsburg with bars. And James Beard award-winning restaurants. And one-of-a-kind shops and galleries. Of course, there’s still plenty of history
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By RICH GRANT If you happen to be looking for a pretty ocean beach where you could get some fresh clams, octopus and squid, you might try Dinosaur Ridge, just outside of Golden, Colorado. Of course, you would be 100 million years too late. Back then, this site was a pretty shoreline of an inland sea that stretched to the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s a sputtering war that has been going on now for nearly three decades — ever since Armenian troops invaded the Azerbaijani territorial enclave of Nargorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts and forcefully expelled 800,000 Azeri farmers and their families from their homes in a vicious and unlawful landgrab of brute force in 1991. The barbarous assault of Karabakh
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As a kid growing up in Cuba, we were blessed in my family to have Uncle Joaquin, who was a fanatic about U.S. history, especially the Gettysburg Address. I don’t know of anyone else who could recite the speech in English and then translate it into Spanish. He was a very well-educated man who taught at
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) takes effect amid a global pandemic and international economic turndown, Canada celebrates its national day on Wednesday, July 1. Canada Day marks the creation of the dominion of Canada through the British North America Act of July 1, 1867, uniting three British territories, the Province of Canada
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Spanish philosopher George Santayana once said: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to relive it.” In fact, life and history themselves are a continuous process of the learning from past mistakes in order to not repeat them. But when we try to destroy our history – no matter how ominous it may be
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By RICH GRANT You can say one thing about the Rail Runner Express: No other train sounds like it. This unusual 96-mile-long railroad runs only between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trains are sleek-looking silver diesel engines with comfortable double-decker cars. There is a bright red roadrunner (New Mexico’s state bird) painted on the side and the cars
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Today, June 22, we remember Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who was born in New Jersey on this day in 1906. She died in 2001. In the late 1920s, Anne Morrow met Charles Lindbergh in Mexico City Her father, Dwight Morrow, was the U.S. ambassador to Mexico at the time. At the time, Anne was a college student
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By RICH GRANT On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, on high bluffs above the Little Big Horn River, Coronel George Armstrong Custer halted the 7th Cavalry and dictated an order: “Benteen. Come On. Big Village. Be Quick. Bring Packs. P.S. Bring Packs.” The order was scribbled and handed to trumpeter John Martin, who grabbed it and galloped off in
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