By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one day after Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced that the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) government was beginning negotiations for Qatar Airways to open direct flights to Mexico, using the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), the Middle Eastern airlines on Wednesday, April 6, contradicted Ebrard, saying it has no plans
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The second installment of a four-part festival of art from India is set to open at Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) on Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10. The event will include a selection of exhibits of India art, seminars, music and dance performances, films, book presentations, yoga classes and a saree
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Qatar Airways will soon begin negotiations to establish direct flights between Doha and Mexico City, Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday, April 5. The airlines, which already services more than 150 international destinations with a fleet of 200 aircraft, would theoretically be flying to the newly opened Felipe Ángeles International Airport
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reprimanded Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, March 24, for launching a Mexico-Russia Friendship Group one day earlier with Moscow’s envoy Víktor Koronelli in tow. Speaking before the same parliamentarians, Salazar said that in the midst of Russia’s brutal invasion into Ukraine, “this sort of endorsement”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was announcing that the Joe Biden administration had determined Russia had indeed committed war crimes in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Mexico Víktor Koronelli went before Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, March 23, to “congratulate” the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for not
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A four-part festival of art from India will open at Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) on Friday, March 11. The festival, which is intended to mark both International Women’s Day and the celebration for the 75th anniversary of the India’s national independence, will include a presentation of Indian films, paintings, sculptures, dance
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The renowned Italian dance group No Gravity is slated to headline the 49th edition of Mexico’s International Cervantino Festival (FIC) in Guanajuato in October. The group will perform a multidisciplinary live and virtual presentation based on Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, with a mind-boggling display of synchronized, gravity-defying ballet. Inferno is part of the troupe’s three-part opus of Dante’s
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Five former envoys warn what could happen under Taliban rule
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of active covid-19 cases in Mexico during the week of June 13 through June 19 surged by 19 percent compared to the previous week, the Public Health Secretariat reported on Friday, July 2. Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) had the highest number of active cases, with more than 3,000
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Gregorio Avendaño Jiménez, Mexico’s first recorded victim of the dreaded “black fungus” murcomycosis infection that killed hundreds of covid-19 patients in India, died Monday, June 7, at the La Raza National Medical Center, relatives reported. Despite efforts to remove the infected tissue through surgery on aggressive surgery Friday, June 5, the 34-year-old patient continued
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