The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
President Enrique Peña Nieto has announced that Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to visit Mexico on an as yet unspecified date.
The prevalence of bullying at schools in Jalisco has increased by 37 percent over the past three years, says National Action Party (PAN) federal legislator Lucia Perez Camarena, who this week launched the anti-bullying campaign “No pego, no agredo, sí respeto” (loosely translated as “I don’t hit, I don’t insult, I respect”).
According to the Washington Post, the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington State is making life hard for cannabis farmers in Mexico.
Fans of coctel de camaron are having to dig deeper into their pockets these days.
Mexico’s Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (Social Development Secretariat or Sedesol) is inviting Mexican citizens over the age of 65 who do not receive a pension to sign up to the new Programa Pensión para Adultos Mayores.
Gas and diesel hikes continue
Consumers can expect gasoline and diesel fuel hikes every month through the end of 2015, according to Mexican Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell.
Both U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Anthony Wayne have recently hosted screenings of “Cesar Chavez,” a new film about the inspirational U.S. labor leader who in the 1960s stood up for the rights of migrant workers and cofounded the United Farm Workers union.
Mexicans are significantly happier than the majority of people in other industrialized nations, says the Better Life Index, a study recently carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Bicycle theft is one crime in Mexico that delinquents are almost guaranteed to get away with.
