By MARK LORENZANA In the last two years, 3,622 workers from the health sector of Mexico’s federal government have died of the covid-19 virus. Among these health workers were doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and administrative staff. A report by Mexican daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, Oct. 3, revealed that from March 12, 2020, to March 12, 2022, 2,746 doctors employed by three government agencies
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
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By ALLAN WALL The death of Queen Elizabeth II, England’s longest reigning monarch, at age 96 on Thursday, Sept. 8, marked the end of an era for both the people of the United Kingdom and the entire global community. Nowhere was her influence more felt and will her legacy be more remembered than in her beloved homeland and Commonwealth. But
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By MARK LORENZANA A shootout that lasted more than an hour on Monday, Sept. 12, forced the residents of Orizaba, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, to run for cover in a day of violence that left an armed civilian dead. According to police reports, the shooting took place at 4 p.m. in the city center, where armed individuals
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Each September, the people of Mexico pay homage to a group of six military school boys known as the nation’s Niños Héroes (Children Heroes). Although there is to this day much debate as to the accuracy of their tragic tale, their fateful sacrifice at Chapultepec Castle is regarded as an example of national pride and uncompromised patriotic
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Twenty years ago, British-born dance director Richard O’Neal, who spent five years as the assistant director of “Riverdance,” the internationally acclaimed dance phenomenon based on Irish folk traditions, decided to use his stage and choreographic knowhow to create a Riverdance-like spectacle that showcased Mexican ballet based on the rousing, foot-stomping dance style known as jarocho, native to
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to host a four-day wooden puppet festival from Thursday, Aug. 25, through Sunday, Aug. 28. The annual festival, titled Wooden Hearts and now in its second year, will showcase four plays using puppets by the Teatrapos puppet company. On Thursday, Aug, 25, at 8 p.m., the group will
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Zócalo main plaza in downtown Mexico City will be the venue for the VIII Festival of Indigenous Cultures, People and Communities from Friday, Aug. 5, through Sunday, Aug. 21, the capital’s Culture Secretariat announced late last week. The event, which will have as its guests of honor members of the often-marginalized Afro-Mexican communities of Oaxaca, Guerrero
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By MARK LORENZANA Members of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) have alleged that the salaries of Cuban doctors recently hired by the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be higher than those of their Mexican counterparts, based on the previous salaries that they purportedly received when a large contingent of physicians from Cuba arrived
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Jorge Winckler Ortiz, the former attorney general for the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, was arrested on Monday, July 25, in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, after being a fugitive from justice for more than two years. The arrest was carried out by members of the Mexican Army’s National Anti-kidnapping Coordination Unit and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection,
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