By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A 1,500-piece exhibition of Mexican history titled “La Grandeza de México” (“The Grandeur of Mexico”) was inaugurated on Monday, Sept. 27, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The exhibit, which celebrates 200 years of the consummation of the country’s independence, a date commemorated that same day with parades and a gala reenactment of the
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By RICH GRANT “When I first came here, almost 30 years ago, Vallarta was a fishing village of some 2,000 souls. There was one road to the outside world – and it was impassable during the rainy season.” So wrote American film director John Huston about his first encounter with the sleepy, isolated fishing village he was destined to change
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ninety years ago today, on March 4, 1929, Mexican history took a turn to become the nation it is today. Modern Mexican history began with the foundation of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), a political organization that would change name in 1940 to the Party of the Mexican Revolution and in 1945 to what it is today
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Throughout his electoral campaign, Mexico’s now-President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) kept on promising something he calls “the fourth transformation”, as well as the construction of the “Fourth Republic.” In reality, the concept is not new, since AMLO has been hammering on the “transformation” of Mexico since his first run for president back in 2006, when he lost by a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An exhibit of more than 180 pieces from the Vatican Museum in Rome is now on display at Mexico City’s Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso Museum. The exhibit, which opened Wednesday, June 20, is part of an ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican. It includes works by Italian
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