By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s usually-robust tourism industry suffered brutal losses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, reaching its lowest level since World War II, and now experts are warning that 2021 could fare even worse for Mexico’s tourism than its predecessor. Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed in a report there was a 46 percent drop
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccines for Mexico has been shipped out and is due to arrive in the country on Wednesday, Dec. 23, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday, Dec. 22. The initial installment of 250,000 doses of the vaccine left the Pfizer plant in Belgium on Tuesday and is being
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By KELIN DILLON The Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (Sectur) revealed that there was a 44 percent drop in foreign tourism to Mexico during 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Projections from Sectur indicated this year will end with 25 million tourists having entered Mexico. This figure stands in stark contrast to the 45 million foreigners who vacationed in Mexico during
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a bone to pick with the world’s leading global business publication. On Thursday, July 11, he “demanded” that the Financial Times of London — one of the most-respected and globally recognized print medias in the world – owed him – and oh, yeah, the Mexican people
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By RICH GRANT Not many Americans make it to Brittany. France’s northwest cul-de-sac that reaches out into the Atlantic Ocean like a crooked thumb is just too far off the traditional loop trip, the tourist route that takes busloads of visitors from Paris to the castles of the Loire Valley, then up to the Normandy beaches. The wilds of Brittany
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Echoing the tone of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech one day earlier in Tehran, Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Taghi Hosseini took advantage of his national day reception on Tuesday, Feb. 12, to bask the United States and underscore his government’s unflinching commitment to the values of the now-40-year-old Islamic Revolution. “The 1979 Islamic Revolution marked a
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