BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS She is the patron saint of Mexico and the focal point of the world’s most visited Christian pilgrimage site. Her image is seen in virtually every Mexican Catholic church and is even caricaturized in hip teenage accessories ranging from school backpacks to chic little blouses. And yet, for all her omnipresent influence in Mexican culture, the story
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The residents of Mexico’s Santa Cruz de La Peña de Bernal, an indigenous Otomí-Chichimeca community in the semi-desert municipality of Toliman, Queretaro, will celebrate an ancient pre-Columbian ritual on Wednesday, May 4, in much the same way that it did before the Spanish Conquest. The millennial celebration, which was eventually adapted and assimilated into
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BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS She is the patron saint of Mexico and the focal point of the world’s most visited Christian pilgrimage site. Her image is seen in virtually every Mexican Catholic church and is even caricaturized in hip teenage accessories ranging from school backpacks to chic little blouses. And, yet, for all her omnipresent influence in Mexican culture, the story
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BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS She is the patron saint of Mexico and the focal point of the world’s most visited Christian pilgrimage site. Her image is seen in virtually every Mexican Catholic church and is even caricaturized in hip teenage accessories ranging from school backpacks to chic little blouses. And, yet, for all her omnipresent influence in Mexican culture, the story
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As an outsider who follows Mexico and Mexican news closely, I’ve noticed a couple of recent articles that should be worrying the Mexican middle class. First, according to his column in Pulse News Mexico, Ricardo Castillo has noted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is making investors nervous. Castillo wrote: “Fear does not ride on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Who’s behind the letter President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent to the king of Spain earlier this week demanding an apology for the atrocities against Mexican natives committed on orders of the king’s Borbón predecessors during 300 years of colonial rule from 1521 through 1821? The simple answer is, his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller. Did she really
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BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS She is the patron saint of Mexico and the focal point of the world’s most visited Christian pilgrimage site. Her image is seen in virtually every Mexican Catholic church and is even caricaturized in hip teenage accessories ranging from school backpacks to chic little blouses. And, yet, for all her omnipresent influence in Mexican culture, the story
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