Guelaguetza Set to Start in Oaxaca
Aside from the dance showcases, the festival encompasses a wide variety of events, which build momentum for the culminating Monday performances
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AMLO and Slim Mend Fences
By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when everyone in Mexico thought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and tycoon entrepreneur Carlos Slim had frozen their relationship, last Friday, June 28, they reappeared together in the state of Oaxaca to relaunch the completion of the 150-kilometer-long, two-expanded-lane Milta-Tehuantepec super highway, with an 8-billion-peso investment. Was this event the beginning of the thawing of
Read morePRI Holds Revival to Resurrect Living Dead Voters
By RICARDO CASTILLO A great majority of observers claim that the registration of candidates for the presidency of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is more than a dismal farce: It is the rise of the living dead. Several candidates registered to contend for the post, but among all of them, the governor-on-leave of the southeastern state of Campeche, Alejandro Moreno
Read moreMexico’s National Guard Goes into Effect
By RICARDO CASTILLO The past six months have been hectic for Mexico and its Congress as they worked to approve several constitutional amendments that will help ease the nation’s transition into what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls the Fourth Transformation, now popularly mentioned as 4T. Apparently – and this is an educated guess only – AMLO has plans
Read moreTrending Beauty (What’s New, What Works)
Personalized Fashion By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Style is personal, and fashion should be as well. That stunning amber pendant that was your late grandmother’s; the oversized boyfriend shirt that actually came from your main squeeze’s closet (with or without his permission); the gold bracelet that has charms representing each of your children (or pets, or whatever); that kinky little felt hat
Read moreThe Best Hope for Slowing Central American Migration
By RICARDO CASTILLO Wherefore art thou, Donald Trump? In reelection limbo, it seems. Over the past two days, the president of the United States has been directing his same old capricious criticism at Mexico, alleging that the United States’ southern neighbor “is doing nothing” to stop the now very dangerous northern flow of desperate migrants from Central American countries. And
Read moreAMLO to Meet with Education Workers Unions
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican education workers nationwide commemorated Teachers’ Day (Día del Maestros) in many different manners on Wednesday, May15, not excluding expressing their dissatisfaction with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) new education reform, which was fully approved by Congress during the day. AMLO said he’d sign the law immediately so it can be published on Thursday, May 16,
Read moreHallelujah! A Teachers’ Day without a CNTE Demonstration…Maybe…or Maybe Not
By RICARDO CASTILLO Every May 15, Mexico commemorates Teachers’ Day. But the festivities – celebrated at every school – public or private – by the millions of students, parents, labor unions, communities and government branches, who pamper teachers that day (even if it is just once a year), may turn out in 2019 to be different from what we’ve had
Read moreTrending Beauty (What’s New, What Works)
Fashion and Beauty with a Purpose By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS We all want to look gorgeous and stylish in the latest fashions, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The clothes we wear, as well as the makeup and beauty products we use, are a personal expression of who we are and how we feel about ourselves. But in today’s
Read moreDevelop the Isthmus? Not Again
By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s new in Mexican news? Most definitely not President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “new” program that he touted over the weekend of April 27 and 28 as the “Development Curtain” to be built along the Isthmus of Tehuantepec – the narrowest land space in southeastern Mexico, between the Pacific and the Atlantic. This same project has
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