By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico at Odds with Bolivia Diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Mexico are heading toward higher tensions as La Paz demands that Mexico deliver four out of nine people who have sought and been granted asylum in the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announces in early morning of Thursday, Dec. 26, that he would
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If it seems that there just aren’t enough hours in the day, it may be because for the last six months, the days have been getting progressively shorter. And today, Saturday, Dec. 21, is in fact, the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, also known as the official start of winter, at
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By RICARDO CASTILLO García Luna Refuses Mexico’s Help Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, Mexico’s former top cop Genaro García Luna appeared before Judge David Horan of the Dallas Federal Court on Tuesday, Dec. 17. García Luna, who was the public security secretary under former Mexican President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), declined during his brief 10-minute court appearance his right
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Corn, or maize, has been a key element in the Mexican diet since pre-Columbian times, and even today it is the core grain in most traditional Mexican recipes. First domesticated by indigenous people in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago, maize also played a key role in pre-Hispanic pantheon of deities, with the maize god, Hun Hunahpu,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Singapore’s prime minister met with AMLO to discuss his nation’s potential involvement in the Tehuantepec Isthmus project…
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By RICH GRANT … With a little planning, Disney World can be the ultimate E-ticket ride for grownups, without Mickey or Donald…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During the 300 years of Spanish rule following Hernán Cortés’ conquest of Tenochtitlán in 1521, the people of Mexico suffered the indignities of imported smallpox epidemics, forced labor and imposed religious conversions. The disenfranchised indigenous Mexica, Maya, Zapotec and Toltec civilizations were stripped of their heritage and land, and what properties were not claimed by the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO On March 6, Pulse News Mexico published an article offering a retrospective on the arrival of Hernán Cortés to Cozumel island. (It was the first incursion of a European army into the American continent with an intent to conquest.) It happened in 1519. Actually, the intent of that article was to set up an observation point from
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Why exactly did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sign a document on Tuesday, March 19, swearing not to seek reelection as president? That question has many answers, but it is extremely odd — this year being 2019, more than five and a half full years before the next presidential term — that any sitting president
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The question is not if (since it will surely happen), but how well will the conquest of Mexico’s Aztec Empire fare in the celebration of its 500th anniversary by Hernán Cortés? The truth is that, half a millennium later, Mexicans are split over how they feel about Cortés, the ensuing 300 years of colonial rule and the brutality
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