The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
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.
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.
Appraisers at the Nacional Monte de Piedad (National Pawnshop) have been busier than ever this year, according to Javier de la Calle, the non-profit institution’s general director.
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.
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the communications of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto while he was on the campaign trail in 2010, newspapers in Britain and Brazil have reported.
