But for those of us who actually witnessed the process, the transparency of the voting and the core reason for Aliyev’s unprecedented victory were obvious, and had nothing to do with either voter manipulation or polling irregularities
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov hosted a lavish diplomatic reception and buffet luncheon at Mexico City’s Hotel Presidente Intercontinental on Monday, Nov. 7, to mark the second anniversary of his nation’s liberation from 27 years of Armenian occupation. “It is a great pleasure to welcome all of you to this celebration that commemorates the second anniversary
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov and his wife Kamala Talibova hosted a diplomatic reception and buffet lunch at the President Intercontinental Hotel in Colonia Polanco on Friday, May 27. Azerbaijan, which first gained it independence on May 28, 1918, only to lose it 23 months later when the Soviets invaded. But while the Caucasian nation’s early
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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Few, if any, territorial disputes are historically simple or cut-and-dry. Most are shrouded in complex webs of nationalism and misinformation, coupled with the raw emotions of human suffering and violence on both sides of the conflict. But the ongoing skirmish between Azerbaijan and Armenia, although rooted in centuries of mutual distrust and ethnic divisions, really boils down
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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While many countries around the world are taking a go-it-alone, isolationist approach to dealing with the mounting international covid-19 pandemic, often resorting to finger-pointing blame games, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is instead adopting a let’s-work-together policy to confront the disease. The NAM — a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — With an entirely new Milli Mejlis (parliamentary general assembly) set to take office next month, Azerbaijan is bracing for a head-to-toe makeover of its social and political system, in keeping with a master plan laid out late last year by President Ilham Aliyev. And with most of the newly elected legislators fresh out of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — When you have a president who has been in power for more than 16 straight years (in this case, Ilham Aliyev), following in the footsteps of his father (Heydar Aliyev), who held the very same post for the 10 years immediately prior to that, it is easy to assume (or suggest) that your head
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