The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Gangs of dognappers have taken to exploiting Mexicans’ growing love for their pets.
Monica Pineda, the vice president of People for the Defense of Animals (GPDA), outlines three main methods that dognappers operate.
As fallout from Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Mexicans rages across the continent, one entrepreneur in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, has come up with a novel way of allowing people to express their feelings about the real estate mogul and U.S. presidential candidate, and make some money to boot.
Avalos Ramirez is doing a brisk trade in hawking Trump piñatas, which he sells for around 40 dollars a pop. He’s even thinking of taking them across the border to McAllen, Texas to see how well they sell there.
Gourmet visitors to Mexico City now have three of the “World’s Top 50 Restaurants” to choose from for their dining pleasure. In this year’s list, sponsored by S. Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, standout eatery Pujol rose four places to 16th place, while Quintonil entered at 35th and Biko 37th.
Speaking in Guadalajara this week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto vowed to “push ahead” with the national teacher evaluation program in a bid to improve the nation’s flagging educational standards.
Delegates at a major oil sector conference in Guadalajara learned this week that state-owned Pemex has discovered huge reserves in the Gulf of Mexico that could yield up to 200,000 barrels a day.
The basic basket of 80 food products that are essential for families is beyond the means of 52 million Mexicans, or 43 percent of the population.
Despite a few isolated incidents, election day in Jalisco went off smoothly, with “nothing out of the ordinary” to report, according to Jalisco Electoral Institute (IEPC) President Carlos Manuel Rodriguez. Police arrested 40 people for “administrative violations” and most were subsequently released on bail.
The LGBT community in Jalisco has hailed a landmark ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court that determine state laws that prohibit same-sex marriage to be “discriminatory” and “unconstitutional.”
A study by the newspaper El Universal has revealed that giant multi-nationals like Walmart, McDonalds and Domino’s Pizza are among the worst payers in Mexico.
