Tag Archives: Ireland

Mexican Treasury Goes after More Former Presidents

PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just two days after it was revealed that the Mexican Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) was investigating the financial dealings of previous President Enrique Peña Nieto on possible charges of embezzlement and/or money laundering, it was reported Saturday, July 9, that the FIU is also conducting a financial investigation into other former presidents, including Ernesto

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Embassies Express Support for Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ Pride March

PULSE NEWS MEXICO A group of 13 foreign embassies and international organizations representations accredited in Mexico on Thursday, June 23, expressed their support for Mexico City’s upcoming 44th LGBTQ+ Pride March and the rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer people in Mexico and around the globe. In a written statement, the embassies said that they “reaffirmed the

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Denver’s Western Saloons Resembled English, Irish Pubs

By RICH GRANT People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years at a variety of taverns, ale houses, coaching inns and grog shops, but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. In the 1700s, to counter distilled spirits imported from Ireland and Scotland, England encouraged distilling corn

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Salazar, 16 Other Envoys Present Diplomatic Credentials

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. envoy Ken Salazar, along with 16 other then-ambassador-designates, presented diplomatic credentials to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in a solemn ceremony at the National Palace on Tuesday, Sept. 14, just three days after Salazar’s arrival in the country. After the ceremony, in which Salazar was the last to present credentials due

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Éirinn go Brách

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Wednesday, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day, and, at least for 24 hours, just about everyone is Irish, or, as the old Dublin saying goes, “wishes they were.” And even though the Irish community in Mexico is relatively small – less than 5,000, including descendants of the martyred San Patricios, an artillery battalion made up of mainly

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Éirinn go Brách

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Tomorrow, Sunday, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day, and, at least for 24 hours, just about everyone is Irish, or, as the old Dublin saying goes, “wishes they were.” And even though the Irish community in Mexico is relatively small – less than 5,000, including descendants of the martyred San Patricios, an artillery battalion made up of

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