The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
If an agreement is reached between Mexican and U.S. authorities, some commercial flights between the two countries will come complete with stun gun-toting American federal marshals.
While Carnaval celebrations in Mexico lack the global name recognition of places like Rio de Janiero, New Orelans and Venice, high-spirited revelry will be unleashed nationwide from this weekend, coming to a crescendo on Shrove Tuesday, February 13.
The Lincoln and Mexico Project (LAMP), an educational and cultural project that has its central aim of improving the U.S.-Mexico relationship, is going great guns.
Teams of federal police officers are being drafted into tourist areas of Mexico in a bid to put the brake on drug gang turf wars and counter the negativity surrounding the country’s soaring crime and homicide rates.
According to the Foreign Voting Commission, of the already-scant half-million Mexican registered voters living in the United States, only 32,600 have requested ballots for the upcoming elections.
Not to be left out of the space age dog race, Mexico is planning to launch eight robots out of the protective cocoon of Earth’s atmosphere, after which they will, if all goes well, touch down intact and functioning on the cratered surface of the moon some months later.
“We repeat what we have said many times: Mexico will not pay, under any circumstance, for a wall in U.S. territory along the border.
A study conducted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has revealed that purchasing power of Mexicans has fallen by 80 percent in the last 30 years.
According to a recent Gallup poll, Mexico is the world’s fourth happiest country, following on the heels of, from third to first, the Philippines, Colombia and Fiji.
