By ALLAN WALL What is now Mexico City was founded as Tenochtitlán in 1325 by the Mexica (Aztec) and subsequently destroyed by the Spaniards and their indigenous allies in 1521. The Spaniards built a new city on the rubble. Therefore, when they dig down under the city, archeologists frequently find Aztec structures, as was the case in the renowned Templo
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During the 300 years of Spanish rule following Hernán Cortés’ conquest of Tenochtitlán in 1521, the people of Mexico suffered the indignities of imported smallpox epidemics, forced labor and imposed religious conversions. The disenfranchised indigenous Mexica, Maya, Zapotec and Toltec civilizations were stripped of their heritage and land, and what properties were not claimed by the viceroys
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Cancelled last year as a precautionary measure due to the covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City’s Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) parade is back on track this year. The parade — a recent phenomenon popularized by Hollywood-style movies (specifically, the 2015 James Bond thriller “Spectre”) — is a mobile collection of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s Franz Mayer Museum opened an exhibit on Wednesday, Sept. 29, of works portraying the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The 82-piece collection, titled “Relatos Artísticos de la Conquista” (“Artist Tales of the Conquest”), presents different perspectives and artistic interpretations on the fall of the Mexica (Aztec) civilization of Tenochtitlán from the 16th, 17th
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During the 300 years of Spanish rule following Hernán Cortés’ conquest of Tenochtitlán in 1521, the people of Mexico suffered the indignities of imported smallpox epidemics, forced labor and imposed religious conversions. The disenfranchised indigenous Mexica, Maya, Zapotec and Toltec civilizations were stripped of their heritage and land, and what properties were not claimed by the viceroys
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By KELIN DILLON A giant rain and hailstorm fell in the Mexico City metropolitan area late in the evening of Wednesday, April 28, bringing a much-needed surge of water to the drought-ridden capital. The weather event felled several trees across the city, and saw flooding on the high-traffic streets of Alencastre and Periférico, as well as in the municipalities of
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During the 300 years of Spanish rule following Hernán Cortés’ conquest of Tenochtitlán in 1521, the people of Mexico suffered the indignities of imported smallpox epidemics, forced labor and imposed religious conversions. The disenfranchised indigenous Mexica, Maya, Zapotec and Toltec civilizations were stripped of their heritage and land, and what properties were not claimed by the viceroys
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The People’s Priority The outcome of the private summit between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the country’s 32 governors on Wednesday, Aug. 19, was twofold in focus, covering both taxation and health. held a press conference with the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), hosted by San Luis Potosí Governor José Manuel Carreras, after the four-hour
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