The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Quebec-based circus arts company Cirque du Soleil will soon be performing its magic at a permanent theater/lounge on the Riviera Maya. According to Spanish-language daily Mural’s finance correspondent Barbara Anderson, the 20-million-dollar project will be underwritten by Cirque du Soleil and Grupo Vidanta, owners of the Mayan hotel chain.
Delivering his first state-of-the-union address (informe) Monday, President Enrique Peña Nieto urged Congress and the nation to back his series of structural reforms that he says will keep Mexico’s “grand transformation” on track.
Gulf Cartel leader Mario Ramirez Treviño, alias ‘X-20,’ was detained in a joint operation between the Mexican Army and the Marines in the border town of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas on Saturday morning.
The National Statistics and Geography Institute (INEGI) reports that 2.6 million of the country’s Economically Active Population (PEA) – around five percent – are unemployed as of the end of the second quarter of 2013. That is up 122,000 from the same quarter last year. In urban areas the unemployment rate reached six percent.
President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed allowing private companies to profit-share with Pemex on Monday, but said the state-run monopoly would remain in government hands and maintain full ownership of Mexico’s oil reserves.
In an unusual step for a Mexican-based company, Starbucks is allocating jobs to people aged between 60 and 65 – not as dish washers or cleaners, but as baristas.
An online company offering a discreet condom delivery service has set up a philanthropic program to enable people in marginal communities to receive free condoms to help prevent unwanted pregnancies and stop the spread of HIV in Mexico.
Almost 20 years since the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) led an armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas on January 1, 1994, the indigenous Zapatista movement remains alive and well.
Mexico’s top AIDS expert has warned that the nation is facing a sharp surge in the number of infected people if prevention measures continue to be ignored, especially by the young.
