The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Our region of Mexico has an delightful abundance of colorful tree varieties—Jacarandas, Primaveras and Tabachines among the most stunning—that augment the many charms to be found here.
Eight journalists have been killed while enrolled in Mexico’s Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists in the last seven years, a figure that highlights the urgent need to strengthen and reform the institution, said Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) upon publication of a joint investigation into the mechanism.
Even though it seems that many candidates have already been on the campaign trail for months, the period when hopefuls running for various governmental offices are let off the leash to “legally” canvass voters for their support kicks off on Friday, March 1.
As the politicking revs up before the June 2 elections, it will become almost impossible to block out the torrent of outrage espousing from candidates regarding criminality and the weak impartation of justice in Mexico.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been fiercely criticized for revealing the telephone number of a journalist from The New York Times who contributed to an article saying that his failed 2006 presidential campaign was partly funded by the Sinaloa drug cartel, and that he was subsequently investigated by U.S. authorities.
Relatives of a Mexican/British resident of Qatar, reportedly detained for being gay, held a protest outside the British Embassy in Mexico City last weekend.
A comparison is often drawn between migrants who look for a better life in the United States, and Americans flooding into countries such as Mexico to live as digital nomads, searching for greater economic freedom or an enriched life experience.
February 29, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated the 50.1-kilometer “Section Five” of the Maya Tourist Train, running from the Cancún Airport to Playa del Carmen. For the time being, there are three daily departures from the airport to Playa del Carmen, at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 and 4:30 p.m.
A crowd of around 40,000 gathered in Guadalajara on Sunday, February 18 for the “March for Democracy,” a protest criticizing the president’s attacks on autonomous oversight agencies and to demand free and fair elections, replicated more 110 cities across Mexico, as well as in the United States and Spain.
