By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE It seems like Mexico City and Paris are in a constant toe-to-toe competition to determine which city has the greatest number of museums. Independent of which is in first place, if you live in or are close to Mexico City, you know the great luxury of being in a city of museums. Mexico’s museums were
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In observance of the upcoming Easter holiday, Mexico City’s Interventions Museum (MNI) in Coyoacán, opened an altar exhibit on Friday, April 8, dedicated to the Virgin of Dolores. The exhibit, which will be open to the public through May 15, outlines Mexico’s history of the religious practice of making Dolores altars. The placing of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s El Carmen Museum, which for years has presented altars of the Virgin Mary’s sorrows during the Holy Week of Easter, but which has been closed for the last two years due to the covid-19 contingency, will reopen with a limited seasonal display to the public on Thursday, April 7. The exhibition, “The
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By KELIN DILLON Early in the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 27, Mexico’s Senate approved the country’s new Income Package for 2022 in a 66 to 44 vote, without making any changes to the initiative. Though opposition parties presented more than 400 potential issues with the initiative, majority senators from the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) rejected their reservations one-by-one. The
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The El Carmen Museum (Museo de El Carmen) in the south of Mexico City reopened to the public on Saturday, May 22, under strict covid-19 safety protocols. The museum is housed in an old Catholic monetary built by Fray Andrés de San Miguel, an illustrious leader of the Carmelite order and heir to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Museum of History and Chapultepec Castle will reopen to the public starting on Tuesday, May 11. In order to observe strict covid-19 protocols, a maximum capacity of 1,800 visitors will be allowed each day, according to a press release sent out by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) on Saturday,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Committees Approve Energy Bill Late Monday, March 1, the Mexican Senate’s Energy, Environment and Legislative Studies Committees approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric energy bill, which went to the Senate floor on Tuesday, March 2, for a fast-track vote. AMLO had asked Congress to approve the bill without even the slightest of changes, despite
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By RICH GRANT It took just 15 minutes of battle in 1759 to end the empire of New France, but it’s taken the 257 ensuing years to create the marvelous concoction that replaced it — the wonderful walled, multi-cultural city of Vieux Quebec. Old Quebec is the most European-looking town in America, a twisting maze of cobblestone streets lined with colorful
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In 2002, an unbreakable bond between the artwork of the Mexican 20th century surrealist artist Remedios Varo and Mexico’s Modern Art Museum (MAM) was established when philanthropist Walter Grüen and his wife Anna Alexandra Varsoviano made an unprecedented donation of 39 of the late artist’s works. This year, that extraordinary collection was expanded even further with a
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