By JENNIFER SCHNEIDER “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela. I am an advocate for gender equality. I am also a feminist. Believe it or not, those are not contradictory sentiments. I believe men have the right to be vulnerable, while women have the right to be powerful. The Merriam-Webster dictionary
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Newly arrived South African Ambassador-designate to Mexico Dennis Thokozani Dlomo hosted a reception at his Bosques de las Lomas residence on Thursday, July 18, to mark the 101st anniversary of the birth of that country’s first democratically elected president in a fully representative polling, Nelson Mandela. One hundred and one years after his birth in the tiny
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday, Feb. 18, that the group of islands off the country’s Pacific coast known as the Islas Marías, which, in the 1940s were transformed from a high-security federal penitentiary into a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders with a minimum two-year sentence, will soon become a cultural center and nature reserve
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One hundred years after his birth in the tiny village of Mvezo, the Rainbow Nation of South Africa paid tribute to the life and legacy of its heroic anti-apartheid revolutionary and first black president, Nelson Mandela, on Wednesday, July 18, with corresponding homages to his ideals and accomplishments conducted throughout the world. Here in Mexico, that embassy’s
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