Ken Salazar will step down as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico on January 7, 13 days before Donald Trump takes office. Ken Salazar’s message comes one day after Donald Trump announced that Ron Johnson, a colonel with a long history leading military operations in countries such as El Salvador, Afghanistan and Iraq, will be the new […]
Our Lady of Guadalupe (In Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the “Virgin of Guadalupe,” is a Catholic, Marian apparition and the most venerated image in Mexico. On October 12th, 1895, Pope Leo XIII granted the venerated image a canonical coronation. The story behind the “Virgen de Guadalupe.”The Virgin of Guadalupe has been, […]
Banks are closed today, Thursday, December 12, as it is bank employee day in Mexico. Due to the celebration of Bank Employee Day, this Thursday, December 12, bank facilities in Mexico will remain closed. According to the calendar of the national banking and securities commission in the country, today is a day off for bank […]
Donald Trump once publicly speculated that Time would never name him the news magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Now, the honor has been bestowed on him twice. Time on Thursday named Trump as this year’s choice, recognizing the president-elect as the individual or group deemed to have wielded the greatest influence on global affairs “for good or […]
This is an excerpt from an article originally published in “Religious News Service”. Author Andrew Chesnut is a professor of religious studies and holds the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Mexicans will tell you 90 percent of them are Catholic, but 100 percent are Guadalupan. While the proportion of […]
Ejidatarios (shareholders of common land)  of Telchaquillo rejected the $8 million compensation proposal offered by the general director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Diego Prieto Hernández, for the expropriation of 14 hectares of Ejidal lands where the pre-Hispanic structures of Mayapán are located. Those interviewed alleged that Diego Prieto and “his accomplices” […]
For the third time, an edition of Viva la Disco will be held, the most important forum in the Yucatan Peninsula for the exchange, sale, and enjoyment of vinyl records, an event that will take place this Saturday, December 14, from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. the night at the bar Cachafaz de la 50. […]
We cannot understand Mexico without the Virgin of Guadalupe. Her image transcends a mere religious symbol. It is the greatest pillar of the cultural and spiritual identity of the nation. Since her alleged apparition on Tepeyac Hill, she became a bridge between the pre-Hispanic world and European Christianity. The Virgin of Guadalupe has accompanied Mexico […]