The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Financial markets have reacted negatively to the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as Mexico’s next president, with the peso the major casualty.
Mexico’s Health Ministry has called out the World Health Organization (WHO) for alarmism following the death of a 59-year-old man in a Mexico City hospital who became infected with a new strain of bird flu, although he had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals.
As most polls predicted, 61-year-old Claudia Sheinbaum swept to a landslide victory in the June 2 election and will become the first female president of Mexico, after taking office on October 1.
Democrats Abroad Guadalajara is sponsoring online voter registration help at the American Society of Jalisco (AMSOC) on the second and fourth Thursdays in June during the society’s weekly lunch, held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. AMSOC is located at Avenida San Francisco 3332, Colonia Chapalita.
In a shock development, the British Ambassador to Mexico, Jon Benjamin, has reportedly been removed from his position after pointing an assault rifle at a frightened embassy employee.
The granddaughter of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews who arrived in Mexico between 1920 and 1940, Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, (Mexico’s virtual president-elect) grew up in middle-class Tlalpan, the largest of Mexico City’s 16 boroughs.
A striking image of the devastation caused by the construction of the Mayan tourist train line on the Yucatan Peninsula has earned a major international prize for a Mexican photographer.
The ruling Morena party and its allies (the Partido Verde and Partido del Trabajo) won important victories in federal Congressional races on June 2.
Mexico goes to the polls on Sunday, June 2, in the largest election ever held in this nation’s history.
