The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The majority of the country’s practicing Catholics initiated Lent by attending church on Ash Wednesday (Miercoles de Cenizas) when a priest – or in some cases a nun – stamped the sign of the cross on their foreheads in ash while reciting a familiar spiritual admonition such as “Repent and believe in the Gospel” or “You are dust and to dust you shall return.”
Mexico does not fall into the category of nations that a World Health Organization expert recently warned are “simply not ready’ to contain a coronavirus pandemic, a federal official said.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that former President Enrique Peña Nieto is being probed for possible corrupt practices, although the current Mexican chief executive says he is unaware of any such investigation.
Mexico’s lawmakers have until April 30 to come up with a regulatory framework for the legalization of marijuana.
This week’s arrest of fugitive Emilio Lozoya, the former chief executive of the state-owned oil company Pemex, is a significant scalp for Pre
sident Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who made rooting out corruption in the highest echelons of Mexican society a key component of his 2018 campaign.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been criticized for announcing that as of 2021 all civic holidays will be celebrated on their actual day, not on the nearest Monday.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left everyone on tenterhooks Thursday, promising that he would announce the following day if he was going to raffle off his unwanted presidential plane via the National Lottery.
This country is experiencing an upswell of indignation at the wave of savage murders of women referred to as “femicides,” a term that is used when women are killed for “gender-specific reasons.”
Mexico will observe its first “puente” (long weekend) of 2020 over the next three or four days.
