By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Vanessa Ponce De León, a stunning 26-year-old social worker from the state of Jalisco, walked away with the 2018 Miss World beauty title in the Chinese city of Sanya on Saturday, Dec. 8. Ponce de León received her crown from the hands of last year’s winner, India’s Manushi Chhillar, based on the competition that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Consulate offices in Guadalajara, Jalisco, opened its offices for normal operations on Tuesday, Dec. 4, after having suffered two grenade attacks onthe night of Friday, Nov. 30, just hours before Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was sworn in on Dec. 1. The consulate was closed on Monday so that officials
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By THE PULSE NEWS STAFF The grenade explosion at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Jalisco, late Friday, Nov. 30 — just hours before the swearing of Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — may have been linked to local drug cartels, according to both Mexican and U.S. authorities. The explosions of two grenades, which occurred about 7:30 p.m.,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of the upcoming Constitutional Wars are growing thunderous in Mexico’s cloudy political skies. Over the past two weeks, the group of 12 National Action Party (PAN) governors across the nation are threatening a rebellion against the “dictatorship” of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his majority in both houses of Congress through the National
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By RICH GRANT With more than 5 million people, Mexico’s second-largest city can be modern, sprawling and congested, but it also offers a wonderful, colonial, pedestrian-friendly downtown worth spending a day or two exploring. Start at the Catedral de Guadalajara, begun in 1561, this is the heart of the city, surrounded by plazas, shopping and incredible architecture. The balcony of La
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After having been downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 3, Hurricane Willa is set to slam into Mexico’s west coast in the early evening hours of Tuesday, Oct. 23, according to the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (SeGob). But while Willa’s wind intensity — which reached 160 miles per hour late Monday
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The French premium glassware and bottle company Saverglass begun production in August at its first North American factory, a $120 million facility in Acatlan de Juarez, just outside Guadalajara in the northwestern Mexican state of Jalisco. Saverglass, based out of Feuquières, in northern France, specializes in high-end and customized bottling for perfume, alcohol and
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