The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Security and Citizen Protection Minister Omar García Harfuch teamed up this week to outline the federal government’s new National Security Strategy, which has the chief aim of reducing the 200,000 homicides that cast a dark shadow over former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term.
Omar García Harfuch, the new head of Mexico’s Security and Citizen Protection Ministry (SSPC), represents the third generation of a Jalisco family with deep—and controversial—ties to national law enforcement and defense, particularly during the height of the 70-year reign of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
On her second day in office, President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree recognizing the student massacre of October 2, 1968, as a crime against humanity.
Ifigenia Martha Martínez y Hernández, the 99-year-old pioneer of the Mexican left, passed away just three days after presiding over the congressional session in which Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico’s first female president.
October 1, on her first day in office, Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated unconditionally the fact that after 65 male presidents since independence from Spain over 200 years ago, a woman had finally reached the pinnacle of political power in Mexico.
A monumental sculpture by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles celebrating trans existence and resilience has been installed in London’s iconic Trafalgar Square, where it will remain through the end of 2025.
Following the approval of the judicial reform bill earlier this month, the National Electoral Institute (INE) now faces the complex task of organizing elections, not only for nine Supreme Court judges but also some 1,600 federal judges and magistrates.
Rights groups continue to voice concerns over ongoing targeting of transgender individuals in Mexico.
Despite widespread concerns about the increasing militarization of Mexico, the Senate has approved a constitutional amendment placing the National Guard (GN)—the country’s primary public security force—under the full control of the Defense Ministry (Sedena).
