Plaza Satélite Doesn’t Duck Out of Mariachi Celebrations
The “Día del Mariachi” is celebrated annually on the Jan. 21, usually fêted with music, tequila and food
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Chana’s Corner
Air Travel By CHANA PERMAN Ma’am, your passport expired yesterday How did you not see? And why are you at the airport? Your flight is in a week We need to dispose of this cream, next time check our website The weather has become treacherous You can only fly tonight Time for passengers to deplane You can book another flight
Read moreEnergizer Helps Mexicans Recharge Their Batteries This Season
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Sure, we all know that when it comes to getting that emergency flashlight in good working order before a family camping trip or making Junior’s toy race car hit the parquet floors with full force, there is nothing more reliable than a pair of good old Energizer batteries. Energizer, which has been lighting the way for TV
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Read moreChristmas with a Spooky Twist
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After the resounding success of its walk-through “Haunted Halloween” adventure in October and November, Encuentro Oceanía shopping mall’s Ping Poing adventure company has brushed off the dust and cobwebs of its scariest Day-of-the-Dead paraphernalia and given it a “second life” with a revamped interpretation of sinister Christmas tales. The newly opened, 10-minute “Christmas Horror Story” experience mixes
Read moreMexico’s Golden Flowers of the Dead
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the ubiquitous images of painted skeletons and sugar skulls that abound across Mexico this time of year might be a bit off-putting for visitors from other countries, the golden orange color of thousands of marigold (cempasúchitl) flowers that line Avenida Reforma and decorate the omnipresent ofrendas (altars to the deceased) at least give a cheery
Read moreMorena Prepares Reform to Legalize Sedena-Run Airline
By KELIN DILLON Just one week after hacktivist group Guacamaya leaked the Mexican Secretariat of Defense’s (Sedena) intentions to create its own self-run airline to the public, Mexico’s in-power party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), proposed a legislative reform that would allow the Sedena to run both a commercial airline and operate the nation’s airports at the same time. First
Read more10 Great Places to See the Redcoats who Made the British Empire
By RICH GRANT No trip to England is complete without seeing a redcoat. There’s no more iconic image of the British Empire than a redcoat soldier, either at a changing of the guard, protecting one of the royal palaces (as they have done for 362 years), or in paintings from Bunker Hill to Waterloo. And yet the place most people
Read moreThe Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
Read moreQueen Elizabeth’s Memorialized Visits to Mexico
By ALLAN WALL The death of Queen Elizabeth II, England’s longest reigning monarch, at age 96 on Thursday, Sept. 8, marked the end of an era for both the people of the United Kingdom and the entire global community. Nowhere was her influence more felt and will her legacy be more remembered than in her beloved homeland and Commonwealth. But
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