The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Citing harsh budget cuts that put the health of patients – especially the poor – at risk, Germán Martínez Cázares resigned this week as director of the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the government-sponsored health care program that covers nearly half of the nation’s citizens.
At least 20,000 citizens demonstrated throughout Mexico last weekend calling for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s resignation.
A new pilot program aimed at getting Mexico’s domestic workers affiliated with the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS) health care program kicked off this month.
Expats in Mexico are the happiest in the world, with the country ranking first out of 68 for personal happiness, according to the the Expat Insider 2018 survey.
Firefighters from Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Chapala, Jocotepec and Jalisco’s Unidad Estatal Protección Civil y Bomberos joined forces to combat a brush fire that broke out early Wednesday, April 3 on the hillside above the Las Brisas residential complex on Chapala’s northern outskirts.
Despite the reports of chaos at the U.S. border caused by an increased flow of migrants seeking asylum in the United States, my recent brief trip to San Diego, California proved uneventful, with no issues to report while crossing over at San Ysidro.
Here’s a question many Mexicans are asking themselves. Is President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador right not to respond to his U.S. counterpart’s threats and constant dissing of Mexico?
Don’t waste your valuable time this Easter. Be prepared for those seasonal closedowns that can wreck the plans of unknowing foreign residents.
2019 might be the last time in Mexico that we have to change the clocks twice a year.
