By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 10 people were detained by authorities on Monday, March 7, in connection with their involvement in a brawl between opposing team fans at a soccer match in Queretaro over the weekend, according to that state’s Prosecutor’s Office. The detainees, all men, were arrested for alleged acts of violence during the Querétaro versus
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 26 people were injured on Saturday, March 5, when clashes between fans from opposing teams broke out in a soccer stadium in the central Mexican city of Querétaro. According to local authorities, at least 26 people were injured during the brawl, two of them critically. Querétaro Governor Mauricio Kuri, who visited some
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 7, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (two days late this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend (hard to do in the times of covid-19) or just a opportunity
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The first-ever Queretaro Fashion Show (QSF), held in the capital city’s majestic, 18th century, baroque Centro de Artes Queretaro (Ceart), on Saturday, Oct. 30, not only showcased the central Mexican state’s dynamic economic recovery after the 18-month covid-19 pandemic shutdown, but also served to reignite the city’s elite social circles and spotlight its extraordinary versatility as a
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By KELIN DILLON A total of 17 teams from Liga MX, Mexico’s top football division, were hit with sanctions of 177.6 million pesos by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) for alleged monopolistic practices and putting a salary cap on the league’s women’s vision. The clubs sanctioned include América, Pachuca, Mazatlán, Guadalajara, Santos Laguna, Tigres, Toluca, Pumas, Monterrey, Necaxa, Atlante
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 30, more than 25 million Mexican students and 2 million teachers finally returned to in-person classes after more than 17 months away from educational centers due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic — though not without widespread uncertainty and controversy around the move. First, the National Union of Parents (UNFP) noted a distinct
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Queretaro Hotel Association hosted a summer outlet forum for tourism wholesalers and agents at Mexico City’s Hacienda de los Morales restaurant on Wednesday, July 14. During the event, the association, composed of 56 of the state’s leading hotels, offered package discounts of up to 40 percent off for stays between July 1 and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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By KELIN DILLON After more than a year-long battle against the covid-19 pandemic, during which many Mexican states were designated by the country’s traffic light color-based risk system as being in the dangerous orange and red zones, finally 29 states have been designated within the yellow and green rankings, meaning a lower risk of coronavirus infection, as of Monday, May
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mauricio Kuri González, Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN) candidate for the governorship of Queretaro (who is also representing the Queretaro Independent Queretaro Independent party, or QI), suffered a mild stroke on Monday, April 26, but is now in stable condition and intends to continue his political campaign. According to his doctors at the
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