By MARK LORENZANA Several experts in the Mexican aviation industry on Tuesday, July 26, expressed concern for the continued deterioration of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), as another aviation analyst lamented the U.S. downgrade of Mexico’s air safety rating in 2021, which he believed does not bode well for the country’s airline industry in the long term. Aviation analyst
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO An exhibition of 30 large-format photographs of Peru and Amazonia is slated to open on Friday, July 22, along Avenida Paseo de la Reforma along the Walk of the Friendly Cultures, located between the Ahuehuete Roundabout and Avenida Insurgentes. The images, which are being presented by the Peruvian Embassy in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexico City
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XINHUA Mexico and Ecuador made “substantial progress” toward a Productive Integration Agreement in the ninth round of negotiations held between Monday, May 23, to Friday, May 27, in Quito, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fishing said Monday, May 30. “The negotiating teams of both countries held high-level technical meetings in which significant progress was made with
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS At long last, spring has arrived in Mexico, and, as a result, the capital’s streets are now awash in sumptuous shades of lavender and lilac as the city’s lush jacaranda trees come into full bloom. Yes, the clusters of violet-blue trumpet flowers embraced by an ensemble of dark green fern-like foliage that grace the city this time of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Members of the International Women’s Club (IWC) enjoyed a culinary tour of Colombia at the Aura Alta Cocina food academy in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma Norte on Thursday, March 10. The lavish seven-course meal, prepared by chefs Jorge Jiménez and Oscar Darío of the La Beautiful restaurant in Manizales, Colombia, and accompanied by a selection of Mexican
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF New reports have revealed that a lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel has assumed partial control of the trafficking of migrants from countries like Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba into Mexico and up toward the United States, charging $22,000 per person moved from South and Central America up to the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged lieutenant, only
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report published by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Mexico is the fourth-most crime-ridden country in the world for illicit trades like drug and weapon trafficking, and takes the position of possessing the most intricate human trafficking network throughout North and South America. In its overall ranking, the Global Organized Crime Index
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By KELIN DILLON As the flow of migrants to the border of the United States and Mexico has continued, criminal groups have seized the opportunity to exploit this already-marginalized group, extorting and kidnapping them as a new facet of their illicit enterprise. Rather than just charging exorbitant fees to traffic migrants through the border, these groups have begun holding them
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XINHUA There are growing concerns over the detection of three new variants of covid-19 in 20 countries in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Wednesday, Feb. 3. These variants “are raising questions about a possible increase” in the transmissibility of the virus, said Carissa F. Etienne, the director of PAHO. During a virtual press conference, Etienne asked
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XINHUA The epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic “is moving from Europe toward the Americas,” Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Mexico, warned on Wednesday, April 22. The Americas have had “a bit more time to prepare for what is coming,” Morales Fuhrimann said via videoconference in Mexico City, noting the
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