By MARK LORENZANA If there’s one team in this World Cup tournament in Qatar that was bound to break Morocco’s stingy defense, it would have been the defending champion. And France did just that on the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 14 (Mexico City time), beating Morocco, 2-0, at the Al Bayt Stadium, in the city of Al Khor. Les Bleus
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By MARK LORENZANA Argentinian soccer superstar Lionel Messi has won it all in his legendary career that has spanned almost two decades. He’s still missing an important piece of hardware in his trophy case, though, and perhaps the most important: a World Cup championship. Messi and the Argentinian National Team will get another chance at World Cup glory as they
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By MARK LORENZANA English striker Harry Kane missed a much-needed second penalty kick, and England lost to defending champion France in their World Cup quarterfinals match on Saturday, Dec. 10, in Qatar. Kane badly needed to score on the penalty as England was trailing 2-1 against France with six minutes left in regulation. The English fans were probably feeling good,
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By MARK LORENZANA Spain started its World Cup campaign with a 7-0 rout of Costa Rica, which many soccer fans, especially fans of La Furia Roja, thought would be a portent of things to come — opponents beware. Instead, Spain is now out of the World Cup, after a match that was level at 0-0 on Tuesday, Dec. 6, against
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Israeli Ambassador to Mexico Zvi Tal and his wife Irit Tal hosted a reception at the Jewish Sports Center on Friday, May 6, to mark the anniversary of their nation’s independence, proclaimed by Ben Gurion in 1948. “Israel has always been the cradle of the Jewish people,” Tal told his guests, who included, for the first time
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XINHUA Mexico will begin operating a digital currency issued by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) in 2025, the bank’s governor, Victoria Rodríguez Ceja, announced Thursday, April 21. The new digital currency, which will be known as Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), is intended to generate alternative means of payment and providing greater financial inclusion. The social benefits derived from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just one day after his monarch ordered his nation’s government to “carry out a comprehensive and profound restructuring of social affairs,” particularly in the health and education sectors, Moroccan Ambassador to Mexico Mohamed Chafiki hosted a diplomatic reception at his Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec residence on Monday, July 30, to commemorate the anniversary of King Mohammed VI
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By EMHAMED KHADAD Special to Pulse News Mexico Last November marked the 42nd anniversary since 350,000 Moroccans crossed into the Western Sahara as part of the staged manipulation called the Green March. November 6 is a dark day for the Sahrawi people, because it epitomizes Morocco’s illegal military invasion and partial occupation of the Western Sahara. In October of 1975, the International
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BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Late last month, the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) celebrated it annual national day, a date which marked the 42nd anniversary of its formal establishment- That would not seem at all extraordinary, except for the fact that the SADR is a country that does not exist. Much like poor Philip Nolan in Edward Everett Hale’s fictitious “The Man Without a Country,”
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The chefs in the royal kitchens of Fez, Meknes, Marrakesh, Rabat and Tetouan refined Moroccan cookery over the centuries and eventually created the basis for what is now known as Moroccan cuisine
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