By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico-U.S. Border Shut for Nonessentials U.S. President Donald Trump perhaps was not precise enough when he announced on Friday, March 20, that with the agreement of the Mexican government, he was “closing the border” as of midnight. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency had to come to the immediate rescue with a press release clarifying the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO “Iron Lady” Named Tax Collector Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez was appointed as Mexico’s new Tributary Administration Service (SAT) director on Thursday, Dec. 18, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). She replaces Margarita Ríos-Farjat, now the 11th member of the Supreme Court of the Nation. Buenrostro (whose last name literally means Good Face) was promoted to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Aug. 20, 1847 – only a quarter century after the people of Mexican had won an 11-year-long war of independence against Spain, which had ruled the region for more than 300 years – the Mexican Army fought the now-famous Battle of Churubusco against the United States. Part of a much larger operation by
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The recent exchange of love letters between the unlikely pen pals of U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) only serves to confirm the statement I made in a recent column regarding the potential of similarities between the two: Birds of a feather flock together. AMLO sent a four-point letter to Trump via U.S.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican election got rolled over by soccer as of Thursday, June 14, only two days after the third and last of presidential debates. Most analysts and commentators nitpicked the claims, accusations, outright lies and statements of grandeur by some of the candidates. For most, if not all, political observers the end of the debates meant the end
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