Belmond to Open Third Luxury Property in Mexico
The new property will be immersed in lush mountainous jungle along a pearly-white beach stretching over two kilometers
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AMLO Snubs AIFA, Prefers to Fly from AICM
By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has not used the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — one of his controversial pet megaprojects — more than six months after its inauguration. In a review by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma of AIFA operations and presidential tours, on at least a dozen occasions, López Obrador has preferred to travel through
Read moreGuanajuato Town to Host Mestizo Food Festival
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The town of San José Iturbe, located in the northern part of Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato, is slated to host the fourth edition of a mestizo food festival on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Sunday, Aug. 21. The festival will include a combination of pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial dishes, with indigenous chefs from Mexico’s Chichimeca and Otomí
Read moreIndigenous Culture Festival Slated for Mexico City Zócalo
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Zócalo main plaza in downtown Mexico City will be the venue for the VIII Festival of Indigenous Cultures, People and Communities from Friday, Aug. 5, through Sunday, Aug. 21, the capital’s Culture Secretariat announced late last week. The event, which will have as its guests of honor members of the often-marginalized Afro-Mexican communities of Oaxaca, Guerrero
Read moreWorld Press Photo Exhibit Opens at Museo Franz Mayer
By MARK LORENZANA The annual World Press Photo Contest exhibit has returned to Mexico City for this year’s edition and will run through Oct. 2 at the Museo Franz Mayer. The opening of the exhibit coincided with the 36th anniversary of the museum, which was founded by German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector Franz Mayer in 1986 as a place to
Read moreAbout 3.2 Million Minors Work in Mexico
By MARK LORENZANA Sunday, June 12, marked World Day against Child Labor under the theme “Universal Social Protection to End Child Labor,” but according to the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim), there are about 3.2 million children in the country under the age of 18 who must work to survive. Rubisel, a 13-year-old from the southernmost
Read moreItalian Film on Mexico Opens at Anthropology Museum
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Italian film “Gods of Mexico” will be presented at the National Museum of Anthropology between Monday, June 13, and Thursday, June 16. The documentary film, directed by Helmut Dosantos, delves into ancestral life in rural Mexico, showing how it has resisted the advances of modern society. “Gods of Mexico” presents an epic journey through the nation’s
Read moreMexican Government Cancels Oaxaca Wind Farm Project
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced Monday, June 6, that it is cancelling the Gunaa Sicarú wind farm, after five years of struggling to make it operative while battling protests from local residents. In a statement, the CFE said that the project, which was located in the southern central state of Oaxaca, would be canceled along
Read moreQueretaro Indigenous Community Marks Ancient Otomí Festival
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The residents of Mexico’s Santa Cruz de La Peña de Bernal, an indigenous Otomí-Chichimeca community in the semi-desert municipality of Toliman, Queretaro, will celebrate an ancient pre-Columbian ritual on Wednesday, May 4, in much the same way that it did before the Spanish Conquest. The millennial celebration, which was eventually adapted and assimilated into
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Independent Indigenous Communities
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE In 421 municipalities across Mexico, the Constitution is in effect, but federal and state statutes do not necessarily apply. These independent communities, made up primarily of indigenous people, are allowed, due to a change in the Mexican Constitution in the late 1990s, to self-govern with the official designation as a “community of traditions and customs.”
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