By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s renowned Museum of Anthropology will reopen to the public on Wednesday, Nov. 11, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Tuesday, Nov. 10. The museum, which was closed in March due to the surging covid-19 pandemic, will be open Tuesday through Saturday, with reduced hours of 10 a.m. to 5
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF It has been 45 years since the residents of San Miguel del Milagro, in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala, first discovered the some of the nation’s oldest pre-Hispanic murals in the archeological site of Cacaxtla. Shrouded in mystery, the centuries-old ruins in Tlaxcala’s volcanic valley is one of Mexico’s greatest pre-Columbian mysteries, with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Wet Politicking in Dry Chihuahua There was a faceoff this week between farmers and the National Guard (GN) at the La Boquilla reservoir on the Conchos River, which feeds into the Rio Grande at the Ojinaga-Presidio border. The GN, in charge of safekeeping the dam, had to withdraw from the facility on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to avoid
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS September is, as they say in Mexico, “el Mes de la Patria” (“the Patriotic Month”), mainly because the country’s national day, the Sept. 16 anniversary of its declaration of independence, falls in the middle of it. There are also several other important Mexican historical anniversaries in September, including the fall of the Niños Héroes (Children Heroes), who
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The People’s Priority The outcome of the private summit between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the country’s 32 governors on Wednesday, Aug. 19, was twofold in focus, covering both taxation and health. held a press conference with the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), hosted by San Luis Potosí Governor José Manuel Carreras, after the four-hour
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Storm Brews over Clean Energy Ban After the vociferous reaction from a number of top Mexican and international business organization leaders against the new ordinance published in the Official Gazette on Friday, May 15, by the Energy Secretariat called the Policy of Trustworthiness, Security, Continuity and Quality in the National Electricity System, as well as a myriad
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Dos Bocas Bubble Bursts The news was sensational. Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Zhi Qingqiao told reporters during the celebration of a China Day event organized by Mexico’s Economy Secretariat on Monday, Jan.13, that Chinese banks were investing $600 million in the Dos Bocas Refinery, currently under construction in the southeastern state of Tabasco. Immediately after
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … The winter months are a time to glow and shine with the addition of glittery makeup and golden jewelry.,,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of the ongoing 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Guadalajara Regional Museum (MRG), the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has organized an exhibit of pre-Hispanic Mexican sculptures of sensual human forms from the western Mexican states of Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco and Michoacán. The exhibit, titled “Semillas de vida:
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