By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The auction of a Pre-Columbian archaeological artifact, which was slated to go on the block at Vienna’s Zacke Gallery on Friday, March 11, was suspended this week thanks to the intervention of the Mexican government, the Austrian Embassy in Mexico announced on Thursday, March 10. The item, a carved stone ballgame yoke presumably from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Not content to have offended Panama last week by having likened its foreign minister to the Spanish Inquisition for rejecting his proposed ambassador, disgraced university professor and accused sexual assailant Pedro Salmerón Sanginés, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — always the diplomat (NOT) — insulted the government of Austria on Monday, Feb. 7, calling it “selfish”
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By RICH GRANT We did not want to go to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After all, it had taken us a lot of time and effort just to get to Krakow. The sun was out, and it was a perfect day. Pretty Polish girls walked by in summer dresses. The cafes of Old Town were buzzing and there were buskers singing and juggling
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By RICH GRANT It’s hard to pinpoint the attraction of Billy the Kid. Viewed in one light, he was probably a psychopath who gunned down a sheriff and two (maybe three) deputies in cold blood, as well as some other assorted enemies. He was an outlaw, a rustler, a hired gun and a murderer, who was himself shot dead at
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By JACQUES GOODLOE Special to Pulse News Mexico The idea of an “axis of the willing against illegal migration” composed of Italy, Germany and Austria has been proposed by Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s right populist leader. He spoke about this with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian conservative who shares the Austrian chancellor’s views on tighter border controls. Kurz said fighting illegal
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