By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news in Mexico over the last few days…
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Bolivian President Forgot She’s Interim
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Janine Añez is taking steps that only an elected president should be taking…
Bolivia Expels Mexican Ambassador, Spanish Consul
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The conflicting crescendo of undiplomatic affairs between Mexico and Bolivia took unexpected proportions with the expulsion of Ambassador María Teresa Mercado…
Talavera Declared Intangible Global Patrimony
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF … The traditional Mexican handicraft is the first Mexican artisan technique to merit the United Nations distinction…
Evo’s Asylum Irked Some, Pleased Others
By RICARDO CASTILLO … There have been two distinct reactions in Mexico regarding the government’s granting former Bolivian President Evo Morales political asylum…
Chasing the Last Weeks of Autumn in North Michigan
By RICH GRANT … As I warmed up by a fireplace in the bar of Stafford’s Weathervane Restaurant, I looked out over the harbor and fell in love with Michigan in October…
The Grito Heard Round the World
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … On the eve of Sept. 15, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang out church bells in Dolores and officially declared Mexico’s independence,,,
Fort Mose, the First Free All-Black Community in North America
By RICH GRANT … More before the U.S. Civil War, the first underground railroad to freedom for escaped slaves ran from Georgia and the Carolinas to Florida…
Spanish Art and Spanish Fashion
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum exhibit shows how Spanish art influenced designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, who revolutionized fashion in the 1940s…
Apologies, Now and Then: Conquest and Reconciliation
By MATT SEDDON Rector of Christ Church Mexico City In 1514, five years before Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores […]
AMLO’s Wife Bursts her Way into the Media Limelight
By RICARDO CASTILLO Who’s behind the letter President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent to the king of Spain earlier […]
