General News

Despite the recent peso slide and concerns about inflation and low growth in 2015, Mexico’s Central Bank board members have decided not to increase interest rates, which currently stand at a record low of around three percent.

All banks and federal, state and municipal government offices throughout Mexico will be closed for business on Thursday, December 25 and again on January 1.  Diplomatic missions will also be closed, as will this newspaper’s offices in Guadalajara and Ajijic.

The new iphone 6, the capture of Chapo Guzman and President Enrique Peña Nieto’s political reforms were among the most popular Google searches in Mexico for 2014. The search engine’s platform “The Year in Search” also reveals that Mexicans were worried about Ebola and the case of the disappeared students of Ayotzinapa. 

Teleton, Mexico’s largest telethon that urges television viewers to donate money for the rehabilitation of children with disabilities, has suffered its worst ever year and last week was forced to extend its annual broadcast by four hours to reach its target of charitable donations.

2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafza has expressed sympathy with the Mexican student who interrupted last week’s medal ceremony in protest at the suspected massacre of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Guerrero.

After many years of discussion, no-holds-barred Las Vegas-style gambling may soon be legal in Mexico.

Low-cost Mexican airline VivaAerobus will start offering flights on the popular Guadalajara-Dallas route as of March 28, 2015.
The Monterrey-based  carrier will use Airbus A320 aircraft and operate out of DFW’s International Terminal D three times per week.

All 125 municipal police forces in Jalisco would be placed under centralized state control if sweeping constitutional reforms proposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto last week get the approval of Congress.