By KELIN DILLON Almost a year and a half after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Mexico’s airspace safety ranking from a Category One to Category Two, Mexico’s enduring airspace troubles are only set to continue as the United States is expected to hold fast to not allowing any new Mexican aircraft into its borders until Mexico can earn
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After a two-month closure for remodeling, Mexico’s National Museum of the Revolution is due to reopen its doors on Wednesday, Sept. 14, with a powerful painting exhibit by artist Santiago Robles dedicated to the nation’s most important basic food item, maize. The “Ode to Corn” exhibit, also titled “The Chauhistle (the Nahuatl word for maize) Has Fallen,”
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By RICH GRANT By a stroke of good fortune for the Mexican tourism office, both of Mexico’s revolutions began 100 years apart – in 1810 and 1910 . Routes that follow the various military campaigns have been laid out with one leaving from Guadalajara that goes to the three most historic towns of Mexico’s 1810 revolt (against the Spanish rule,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Regional Museum of Chiapas, part of the network of exhibition halls belonging to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), will present an extensive exhibit on the Maya archeological site Bonampak from Wednesday, Sept. 7, through March 3, 2023. The exhibit, titled “Bonampak, a History under Construction,” will include reproductions of murals, ceramic and stone
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If you are stuck for something to do this summer, and even into fall, consider taking a staycation at the W Mexico City. Not only is the hotel, part of the Marriott International chain, one of the hottest spots to dine or have a drink in the heart of one of the most dynamic parts of the
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE First, it was a piece of perforated paper, then the option existed to create the document on-line. For years, a standard 180 days were issued. But about a year ago, immigration officers in Mexico began to assign everything from 10 to 90 days for some. What are we talking about? Every foreign tourist in Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The town of San José Iturbe, located in the northern part of Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato, is slated to host the fourth edition of a mestizo food festival on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Sunday, Aug. 21. The festival will include a combination of pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial dishes, with indigenous chefs from Mexico’s Chichimeca and Otomí
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a totally unveiled effort to force airlines to use his dysfunction and nearly-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which most international and even major national airlines have so far avoided for safety concerns, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Aug. 11, that he would limit the number of flights allowed to land and
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By MELISSA T. CASTRO EDINBURGH, Scotland — Originally founded as a monastery in 1128 AD, today the Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the Queen in Scotland. Set against a stunning backdrop of Arthur’s Seat, and on the opposite end of Edinburgh Castle via The Royal Mile, this is a must-see on any trip to Edinburgh. Holyroodhouse has
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least nine people have been detained by authorities in relationship to the Saturday, July 23, shootout in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen beach resort, police reported Thursday, July 28. According to police, at least two of the nine arrested persons were directly linked to the Fifth Avenue shootout in Playa del Carmen, in the Mexican Caribbean state
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