By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE When is a city too big to be livable or too small to have the quality of life that we feel we need? The answer would be worth a fortune. Of course, social scientists try to measure such things. A recent study by Elaine Siu of the University of British Columbia looked seriously at the
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By MARK LORENZANA The arrival of Cuban doctors in Mexico will continue as long as there is a demand for specialists, said Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), as more Cuban physicians were deployed in the country on Tuesday, Aug. 19 — this time in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Campeche. Around 50 Cuban doctors arrived
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By MARK LORENZANA Full disclosure: Although I’ve read a few of the major works of beloved Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez (“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “The Autumn of the Patriarch” and “Love in the Time of Cholera”), I have never read his short story collection “Strange Pilgrims.” So when the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Mexico City invited
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 1, the New York City Bar Association released a statement accusing the actions of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) continued public threats against Mexican judges who rule against him as violating international law and the legal standards for judicial independence as outlined by the Mexican Constitution, the American Convention on Human Rights
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Watching the World Go By
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By MARK LORENZANA On Monday, June 13, Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Márquez was finally inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York, after more than two decades of dedicating his life to the sweet science and eight years since he fought — and won — his last fight against Mexican-American contender Mike Alvarado in 2014.
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PUBLIFIX His name is synonymous with Mexican cuisine around the world, and he is among the local culinary community for having elevated the country’s street-food image to the fine dining spectrum. But what makes Enrique Olvera unique among Mexico’s top chefs is the fact that he does not focus on molecular gastronomy or fancy over-the-top plating techniques. Instead, Olvera has
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Back in 1952, when U.S. TV news was dominated by men, long before the days of Barbara Walters, Carol Reed was the first weather girl on the CBS local news in New York City. By the time the mid-1960s rolled around, stations across the United States were competing against each other with their respective weather
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When it comes to food, the Japanese tend to be purists. Ask for a California roll or shrimp sushi with mayonnaise (as it is commonly served in Moscow) at a traditional restaurant in Osaka, and you are likely to earn a scornful glare of disapproval from your chef or server, if not an invitation to go elsewhere.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to an extensive investigation conducted by the U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero — who has already earned himself considerable public ridicule and distrust for prosecuting his 94-year-old sister-in-law and her family in order to expropriate their inheritance from his late brother, and for trying to incarcerate 31
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