By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF More than 50 percent of Mexico City and parts of the State of Mexico (Edomex) will suffer water shortages and cutoffs for at least five days, the National Water Commission (Conagua) announced on Monday, Oct. 10. Conagua will suspend service from Wednesday, Oct. 31, through Sunday, Nov. 4, in order to conduct maintenance operations
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray seems to be a master chef for all the dishes in the nation’s formidable international menu. But being a jack-of-all-trades has its shortcomings, and, indeed, Videgaray is now in hot water many reasons. FIRST: Last Monday, May 21, Videgaray convened with the so-called Lima Group’s (GL, for Grupo de Lima) representatives, comprised by
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Welcome Mexico to the New Year, which effectively starts today Jan. 8, 2018. Over are the fiestas that traditionally start on Dec. 12 with the celebration of the nation’s spiritual mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and ended last Saturday, Jan. 6, with the celebration of the Three Wise Men fiesta. Naturally, over the holidays, there
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