Navigating Mexico: Article 33
Mexicans and foreigners in Mexico alike love to make reference to the country’s Article 33, a clause in the constitution that prohibits non-Mexicans from being involved in internal national affair
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Former President Salinas de Gortari Granted Spanish Nationality
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who served as the country’s head of state from 1988 to 1994, was granted Spanish nationality in May of this year, after proving Sephardic Jewish ancestry, the Spanish daily newspaper El País reported on Sunday, Oct. 30. In what some see as a hedge against possible political persecution and extradition
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Thanks for the Nationality, Grandma
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Here is an odd situation: You were born in the United States. So were your parents. So you are a U.S. citizen, right? Right! But take a city like Los Angeles, California, with the second-largest population of Mexicans after Mexico City. Maybe one of your grandparents was born in Mexico, moved to Los Angeles or
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