By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Dec. 8, increased its travel advisory for Mexico to Level 3 due to the high incidence of covid-19 infections in the country. A Level 3 advisory means that U.S. citizens who were planning to come to Mexico should reconsider their travel plans. The new State Department travel advisory
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After months of fluctuating between red, orange and yellow, Mexico City is now — finally — in the green spectrum of the country’s covid-19 risk traffic light system. As of Monday, Oct. 18, Mexico City Digital Agency Director Eduardo Clark said Friday, Oct. 15, that, due to a “significant drop in the number of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a habit of going off halfcocked (so much so that one has to wonder if he even has a full one, but that’s another column altogether), but his latest plan to host a massive celebration for Mexico’s Revolution Day anniversary in the Zócalo on Nov. 20 certainly ranks among
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since it first opened its doors as a private hotel for a discerning public in 1957, Las Brisas, Acapulco’s premiere luxury resort destination, has always been about seclusion and indulgence. For decades, the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Ringo Starr and even John F. Kennedy would make unpublicized visits to the hotel’s exclusive
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, a party with over 100 attendees was broken up by authorities early in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 14, for violating citywide mandates on large gatherings. In a video uploaded to social media, the partygoers were seen being forced out of an illegally operated basement venue at Palmas 810
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Whether inspired by a desperate desire for direct sunshine and one-on-one social contact, an urgent need to get back to work and make money to pay off bills, or the misguided advise of a delusional president who preaches the gospel that four-leaf clovers and a junk food-free diet will ward off that evil eyes of covid-19, most
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