XINHUA International tourism arrivals in Mexico plummeted 66.6 percent in July compared to the same month last year due to a drop in air traffic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said on Thursday, Sept. 10. Just over 1.39 million foreign visitors traveled to Mexico in July, compared to over 4.16 million in 2019, according to the Inegi
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Air Canada Vacations has become the first major airline in the Americas to offer covid-19 protection to its clients, the Montreal-based company announced this week. In order to offer its customers a greater sense of safety and confidence during their travels, Air Canada Vacations launched its Covid-19 Coverage and Assistance Plan, designed to cover
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS September is almost here, and for Mexican foodies, that means chiles en nogada season. According to a local legend, the colorful dish, composed of stuffed green chiles drenched in a white walnut sauce and sprinkled with red pomegranate seeds, was first created in Puebla to honor Emperor Agustín de Iturbe y Arámburu after he accepted Mexican independence
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By RICH GRANT THE COLORFUL FALL COLORS OF COLORADO There are more than 2 million acres of aspen trees in Colorado — one billion trees that if placed together would cover Rhode Island and Delaware. Rocky Mountain aspen leaves don’t just turn color in the fall, they positively glow a bright luminescent yellow gold, almost as if they had
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By RICH GRANT Everyone knows Charleston, South Caroline, is one of United States’ most historic cities, but there’s a lot more than history occupying the town’s 1,600 pre-Revolutionary War buildings, including new breweries, distilleries and clubs. Charleston has become a Williamsburg with bars. And James Beard award-winning restaurants. And one-of-a-kind shops and galleries. Of course, there’s still plenty of history
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XINHUA Mexico City’s famed floating gardens, Xochimilco, a major tourist destination and center for the sale of fresh plants, reopened to the public on Wednesday, Aug. 19, Xochimilco’s more than 1,800 shops and tourist boats closed down in early May — just prior to the crucially important May 10 Mother’s Day crowd –due to the coronavirus pandemic, representing a loss
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XINHUA Restrictions on nonessential land traffic along the border between Mexico and the United States will be extended until Sept. 21 due to the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced on Friday, Aug. 14. According to the secretariat, Mexico proposed the extension of the partial closure of the border for another month after reviewing the
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By RICH GRANT If you happen to be looking for a pretty ocean beach where you could get some fresh clams, octopus and squid, you might try Dinosaur Ridge, just outside of Golden, Colorado. Of course, you would be 100 million years too late. Back then, this site was a pretty shoreline of an inland sea that stretched to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department issued a new maximum level travel advisory for Mexico on Thursday, Aug. 6. The new Level 4 advisory (the highest in the State Department’s warning scale), states clearly that U.S. citizens should not travel to Mexico due to high levels of covid-19 infections and growing security issues. “Exercise increased caution
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By RICH GRANT The Battle for the Bloody Bozeman Trail In 1866, gold was discovered in Montana, and it was almost a replica of what had happened in Colorado. The main trails west bypassed and went far south of Montana, so a scout named John Bozeman laid out a new diagonal trail northwest across Wyoming for the dozens of wagon
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