The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Changes to federal law that require all automobiles being driven on federal highways in Mexico to carry third party liability insurance came into effect on October 1, six months after they were approved by Congress.
Forget “the special relationship” with the United Kingdom, the cultural affinity with Canada, or the strong bonds with France (the first country to recognize the 13 colonies as a separate nation), Mexico is now the closest ally of the United States – or so says Vice President Joe Biden.
Wal-Mart de Mexico has finally sold its Vips chain of restaurants, a burden that financial analysts say was becoming a distraction from the retailer’s core business.
The death toll from the severe tropical storms that ravaged Mexico last week has grown to 145 and could rise even further as President Enrique Peña Nieto admitted that the dozens still missing in La Pintada, Guerrero are unlikely to be found alive.
The government has scrapped controversial plans to apply valued-added taxes to food and medicine, President Enrique Peña Nieto revealed on Sunday, as he outlined his proposals for an overhaul of Mexico’s infertile tax system.
A wrathful Tlaloc did his best to upstage the Independence Day “Gritos” delivered by the nation’s politicians on Sunday night, as tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid ravaged Mexico from east and west.
Father Miguel Hidalgo’s emotional 1810 “grito” exhorting Mexicans to take up arms against their Spanish masters will be reenacted in the main plazas of cities, towns and villages the length and breadth of Mexico, at 11 p.m. on Sunday, September 15.
United States Vice President Joe Biden met with President Peña Nieto during a two-day visit to Mexico on September 19 and 20.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the billionaire boss of the Sinaloa Federation, has proved an elusive figure since escaping from Jalisco’s maximum-security Puente Grande prison in 2001. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) knew his whereabouts “on any given day” in recent years and even drew up a plan for his assassination which was eventually rejected by the Barack Obama administration, according to leaked reports from Stratfor, a U.S.-based global intelligence firm.
