By MARK LORENZANA Flights between Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela operated by Línea Aérea Conviasa — the flagship carrier and largest airline of Venezuela — and Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Mexico City have not been registered, despite thousands of Venezuelan nationals arriving there since March. Although there have already been three Conviasa flights from Caracas,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What was the political gossip this week in Mexico? Definitely, the “denunciations” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made of nine past officials for stealing money from the near-bankrupt, still-government-run electricity monopoly, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). As we covered in Pulse News Mexico, on Monday, Feb. 11, the president, during his daily press conference at the National Palace in downtown Mexico City,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Xia Xiaoqi hosted an early Chinese New Year festival at his Colonia Pedregal residence on Saturday, Feb. 2. The event, which was cohosted by the Chinese Embassy, the Chinese Cultural Center and China Southern Airlines, was attended by Mexican Interior (SeGob) Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero, Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco Márquez and Senate President
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The change over of presidents in Mexico is always a formal event, and this time was no exception, except for the fact that the style of doing things has changed. Some, if not all, of the stiff formality of yesteryear was absent in the proceedings that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The real change of administrations
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This column is intended to be about the new Mexico City International Airport, now a topic of stiff controversy. But let me start elsewhere, with a different subject that seemingly has nothing to do with the airport, a Mexican political personality who, as a result of the July 1 election, plummeted from near-absolute power to a soon-to-be insignificant senator scrambling for scraps of
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