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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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The iconic Mexican rock band La Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio packed Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza on the night of Saturday, July 16, with a free concert attended by an unprecedented 110,000 people. Decked out in their signature baggy suits and feathered hats, La Maldita Vecindad band members performed almost their entire repertoire as
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican soprano singer María Reyna will offer an operatic concert dedicated to the indigenous Mixe people, who live in the eastern highlands of the central state of Oaxaca, in a one-night performance at the National Center for the Arts (Cenart) on Saturday, May 21. The concert, titled “Orgullosa Soy Raíz” (“I am Proud of
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thousands of Mexican women are expected to take to the streets on Tuesday, March 8, to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), and while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has called on the marchers to avoid violence, few expect the protests to be 100 percent pacifistic. Mexico, with one of the highest per capita incidences of
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the rest of the world is gearing up to face the ominous threat of the highly mutated Omicron variant of the covid-19 virus, here in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is preparing to host a massive, come-one-come-all celebration of his third year in power at the capital’s main square Zócalo on Wednesday, Dec.
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Cancelled last year as a precautionary measure due to the covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City’s Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) parade is back on track this year. The parade — a recent phenomenon popularized by Hollywood-style movies (specifically, the 2015 James Bond thriller “Spectre”) — is a mobile collection of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Getting to the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Santa Lucía from downtown Mexico City could take up to two and a half hours and cost up to 1,839 pesos if you choose to use a private driver platform during peak hours, such as on a Friday payday, according to a report published Monday,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A pro-abortion march in Mexico’s City’s main plaza Zócalo on Tuesday, Sept. 28, left at least 37 people injured, according to data from the Secretariat for Citizen Security (SSC). Of those hurt, 27 were police officers, four of whom required hospitalization. A member of Mexico’s Interior Secretariat was also attacked. Nine of the injured
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Sept. 27, large festivities featuring dances, soldiers, fireworks and a speech from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) were held in Mexico City’s Zócalo, celebrating the 200 years that had passed since Mexico’s Consummation of Independence in 1821. Large lights lit up the downtown square to look akin to the Mexican flag, with staged
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Monday, Sept. 27, marks the 200th anniversary of the Consummation of Mexico’s independence, an act that was framed by the entry of the Trigarante Army, led by Army General Agustín de Iturbide, into Mexico City in 1821. To commemorate the date, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the National Defense
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