The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The entire world seemed to be on the side of justice, compassion and tolerance in Mexico City during the Pride celebrations two weeks ago, inflicting, one fondly imagines, a rebuke to those who view the enjoyment of basic human rights to be a privilege only to be availed of by the slender pie wedge of humanity left after the rest has been carved away for the commission of a myriad of perceived moral trespasses.
In the first five months of 2017, construction materials have risen by a yearly average of 15 percent, a hike not seen since 2008. Expect rents and housing prices to rise considerably this next year.
U.S. President Donald Trump has been good to the news business, pundents and late-night TV hosts, but Mexican businesses are also using his unpopularity with their countrymen to their advantage.
In this country, four different firms are producing intelligent electricity meters, which not only conform to the standards of the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), but also insure you are getting efficient use of your juice, and reduce electricity loss or theft.
A brand of toilet paper called “Trump” is set to go on sale soon, with the profits earmarked to help migrants and deportees.
Each of the 11.88 million votes cast during the June 4 elections in Nayarit, Coahuila, Estado de Mexico and Veracruz cost at least 446 pesos, according to national election officials.
The prospect that U.S. President Donald Trump could scrap the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the endless talk about a 2,000-mile border wall, the arrest and deportation of Mexican immigrants back to their home country… The US-Mexican saga can be pretty confusing, but one thing is clear: relations have turned sour. Mexico is mired in political and economic quicksand, but it can still count on an old friend for help: Spain.
In the next 5 years, passports could become quaint objects of nostalgia, thanks to biometric technology, which will use facial and retinal recognition software to verify travelers’ identities. It’s only a matter of time, then — considering the speed with which the larcenous members of our species get around obstacles planted in their way by the relatively scrupulous members — for a market in forcibly extracted eye balls to emerge and thrive.
The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appeared to have won last Sunday’s gubernatorial election in Estado de Mexico but the narrowness of the result means they can take nothing for granted when the nation votes to elect a new president in 2018.
