By RICARDO CASTILLO Play ball, heckling politics and eat “cochinita” tacos!!! Over 20,000 Mexico City baseball fans on Saturday, March 23, made the trek to the revamped stadium located at Magdalena Mixchuca Sports City in eastern Mexico City. The objective of getting there was threefold, the most important incentive being to watch President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) make the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The question is not if (since it will surely happen), but how well will the conquest of Mexico’s Aztec Empire fare in the celebration of its 500th anniversary by Hernán Cortés? The truth is that, half a millennium later, Mexicans are split over how they feel about Cortés, the ensuing 300 years of colonial rule and the brutality
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a recent surge in violence and the shooting death of seven men in a local bar on Jan. 5, Playa del Carmen is a safe destination for tourism, the Mexican Caribbean resort town’s recently instated mayor, Laura Esther Beristáin Navarrete told a small gathering of journalists in Mexico City on Wednesday, Jan. 9. “Yes, we have
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After a quarter-century hiatus from the eye of the global media, one of the country’s most enigmatic and controversial political entities, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), has returned to the public spotlight as one of newly instated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most unexpected and vocal nemeses. The far-left EZLN, which began as a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Like whirlwind, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took the nation by storm in December, outlining the shape of things to come in Mexico during 2019. AMLO was anything but contemplative during his first month in office. To begin with, he held 20 hour-long press conferences to explain either what he had done the the day before or what he
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of the upcoming Constitutional Wars are growing thunderous in Mexico’s cloudy political skies. Over the past two weeks, the group of 12 National Action Party (PAN) governors across the nation are threatening a rebellion against the “dictatorship” of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his majority in both houses of Congress through the National
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For the first time in the southeastern Mexican state’s history, the government of Yucatán will host a three-city celebration of the Festival de las Ánimas (Festival of Spirits, a slightly less macabre take on Mexico’s renowned Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead) from Wednesday, Oct. 24, through Friday, Nov. 2. For the last three years,
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