The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has provoked the biggest political awakening of Mexico’s youth since the late 1960s. The students that comprise the #YoSoy132 movement could now play a vital role as a national watchdog and a catalyst for reform.
Mexico expects to receive a record high of at least 24.6 million foreign tourists in 2012, Tourism Secretary Gloria Guevara revealed on Friday.
At least 750,000 ordinary Mexican citizens served as polling station officers in Sunday’s federal and state elections.
Following a recount of more than half the votes, Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) has confirmed Enrique Peña Nieto as the winner of the July 1 presidential election.
Enrique Peña Nieto, a 45-year-old former state governor, looks set to win last Sunday’s presidential election with around 38 percent of the vote, returning the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power after 12 years in opposition.
Remittances sent from Mexicans living abroad in the month of May rose by 7.8 percent to 2.3 billion dollars, the highest figure since October 2008.
Early election returns and the results of an official "quick count" by electoral authorities indicate that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is set to take back the Mexican presidency, as well as the Jalisco statehouse.
An U.S. intern working at the Associated Press news agency in Mexico City has been found dead in an apartment building near where he was living in the Condesa neighborhood.
Unless the vote is close, at around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday evening we should know who will be the new president of Mexico.
