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No End in Sight for Mexico’s Deadliest Pandemic

OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the

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Santa Clara del Cobre: Mexico’s Copper Capital

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art

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Cenart India Festival Continues with Art Exhibit, Saree Catwalk

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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Indian Art Festival to Opens at Mexico’s Cenart

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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On International Women’s Day, AMLO Celebrates…Himself

OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what was seen by many women in Mexico as a blatant affront to their cause to end the country’s surging levels of femicide and gender-based violence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) marked Tuesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (M8), locked in the National Palace, congratulating himself for his political accomplishments (like, for example, more

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Women’s March Takes Mexico City on International Women’s Day

  By KELIN DILLON More than 75,000 women took to the streets of Mexico City in protest of violence against women on Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – in what’s become a requisite march for the country’s feminists on the global holiday, commonly known in the nation as ‘8M’. While government officials like Mexican President Andrés Manuel López

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