America First Undermines US Interests
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Frena: A National Movement to Dethrone AMLO
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When Gilberto de Jesús Lozano González, the founder and leader of Mexico’s Frente Nacional Anti-AMLO (National Anti-AMLO Front, or Frena) presented a formal demand before the Chamber of Deputies judicial committee on Wednesday, Aug. 5, calling for the immediate and irrevocable destitution from office of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), he had no illusions that it
Read moreTake Mom to the Circus (Virtually) on Mother’s Day
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the covid-19 lockdown may be stopping you from taking your mom out this year for a special treat on Mother’s Day, you can still celebrate her day with an outing to the circus, albeit virtually. Although the coronavirus pandemic closed down three-ring tents across the country as of late March, the members of
Read more17 Months of Poor Governance
By KITZIA NIN PONIATOWSKA In 17 months of poor governance, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has surpassed his predecessors Carlos Salinas de Gortari in terms of currency devaluation, Ernesto Zedillo in terms of economic recession, Vicente Fox in incompetency, Felipe Calderón in the number of homicides and Enrique Peña Nieto in terms of corruption and ignorance. In less
Read moreThe Michelangelo of Facial Sculpting
Photo: biiang.com By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS What are the features that make a woman feminine and a man masculine? Certainly, body structure and form – along with genitals – define a person’s sexuality and gender. But it is our unique facial features, our individual physiognomy, that gives each of us our most important sexual identity with which we confront the outside
Read moreMexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO First Coronavirus Case in Mexico Mexico’s Health Secretariat was notified on Saturday, Feb. 1, by the Los Angeles International Airport medical authorities of the confirmed case of a 37-year-old Chinese national and Wuhan native who had visited Mexico as of Jan. 21. Taxi service company Uber acknowledged that the infected person used at least two of its
Read moreAMLO’s Secret Weapon: Don’t Fight Back
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s an old practice in Mexican political journalism known as “tying knives” (“amarrando navajas,” if you want the Spanish term.) The term is not political in origin. In fact, it actually refers to the moment before a cockfight when the people in charge of making the birds fight tie a steel blade to the roosters’ spurs. Consequently,
Read moreShifting Sands, and So Little Time
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreAll LatAm Nations Are Different
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Each Latin American nation is different, not just in size. but also politically and economically, different to dire extremes…
Read moreThe Mysterious Execution of Two Israelis in Mexico
By RICARDO CASTILLO Esperanza Gutiérrez Rojano ran like hell out of the plush southern Mexico City Artz Pedregal mall on Wednesday, July 24, a little past 5 p.m., to no avail. Less than a block away, she was stopped by a city policeman and, in no time, she was surrounded by patrol cars. She was laden onto a pick-up converted
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