Remembering Tlatelolco – 56 Years Later
When the carnage ended, dozens lay dead and hundreds of other students had been shoved into vans, many of them to be tried and imprisoned.
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Former Mexican President Echeverría Dead at Age 100
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, who served as the country’s head of state from 1970 to 1976, died on Friday, July 8, at home in his sleep, sources close to his family reported Saturday, July 9. Echeverría, who was a populist president from the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) turned 100 on Jan.17. On Nov. 14,
Read moreMarch Recalls Mexico’s ‘Noche de Tlatelolco’ Massacre
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 5,000 Mexicans took to the streets on Saturday, Oct. 2, to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the bloody massacre of more than 300 unarmed civilians for the Mexican Army and the Olimpia Battalion paramilitary group at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco neighborhood. The massacre, often referred to
Read morePoniatowska: AMLO Exposes Himself to Criticism
By KYLIE MADRY In a new interview with Mexican daily El Universal, renowned journalist Elena Poniatowska calls out President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), saying he brings the criticism he receives upon himself. “He exposes himself (to attacks) more than any other president I’ve seen,” Poniatowska said in an interview published Wednesday, Oct. 21, “much more than (former Presidents Adolfo)
Read morePorfirio Muñoz Ledo, Under the Limelight Again at Age 85
By RICARDO CASTILLO The new Chamber of Deputies president, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, is a master of political discourse and parliamentary procedures. During the “installation” (to use the Mexican term for inauguration) of the two houses of Congress last Saturday, Sept. 1, Porfirio, at age 85, presided over the inaugural process of the 64th Legislature. And in so doing, he showed his experience
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