By MARK LORENZANA Fans of Mexican basketball have a lot to celebrate lately. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 4, the Mexican National Basketball Team defeated Panama, 65-60, in the group stages of the ongoing 2022 FIBA AmeriCup Tournament in Recife, Brazil. Previously known as the FIBA Americas Championship, the FIBA AmeriCup takes place every four years between national teams
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Santi Triprakoso Wartono, wife of Indonesian Ambassador to Mexico Cheppy Triprakoso Wartono, hosted a lavish sit-down farewell luncheon for departing colleague Jennifer Treptow, wife of U.S. Embassy Department of Justice Attaché Walter Treptow, at the embassy’s offices on Friday, July 8. The Treptows, who has been in Mexico for three years, are being transferred back to their
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By MARK LORENZANA The United States, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala will be the four representatives at the 2023 Under-20 World Cup of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) in Indonesia. Mexico’s U-20 team will be left off that list after it suffered a shocking defeat to underdog Guatemala on Thursday, June 30, at
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of an ongoing program to promote awareness and appreciation of Indonesia in Mexico, that country’s embassy here has launched a weekly Taste-of-Indonesia bazaar, with a sampling of traditional delicacies, handcraft sales and a tour on the embassy’ on-premises cultural museum. The cultural outreach initiative, which includes a potluck cafeteria-style buffet of indigenous Indonesian food prepared
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Toto, the last surviving orangutan in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo, has died, the city’s Environment Secretariat (Sedema) reported late Wednesday, Dec. 8. Toto, a male ape that was donated to Mexico by the Indonesian government, was one month short of reaching age 30. According to zoo sources, he had begun to be listless and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With covid-19 restrictions finally beginning to ease in Mexico City (thanks to a drop in infection numbers), Indonesian Ambassador to Mexico Cheppy T. Wartono and his wife Santy Triprakoso Wartono were among the first diplomats stationed here to venture back into the world of official social gatherings, offering a 18-person, sit-down dinner at their residence on Friday,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Partial National Shutdown As of Monday, March 30, Mexico officially entered into a month-long economic standstill to prevent close contact among citizens in order to avoid the spread of the Covid-19 virus. The announcement of the partial national shutdown, which will last through April 30, was made by members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Indonesian Ambassador to Mexico Cheppy T. Wartono hosted a diplomatic reception at his Lomas de Chapultepec residence on Tuesday, Aug. 27, to mark the 74th anniversary of his nation’s independence. During his welcome speech, Wartono spoke about his government’s efforts to modernize its infrastructure development and attract investors through simplified services and an improved business environment. He
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s national airline, Aeroméxico, announced late Monday, March 11, that it has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of six Boeing 737 Max 8 jets as a result of safety concerns following the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight on the same model on Sunday, March 10. The Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed six minutes
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With less than 80 Sumatran rhinoceroses left in the wild, and only a few in captivity, the Sumatran rhino, the smallest of the five species of this endangered family of odd-toed ungulates, was officially declared extinct in Malaysia in 2015. The two-horned Asian rhino currently competes with the Javan rhino (of which there are about 100 left
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