The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mexico’s Tren Maya is expanding its tourist offering with “Janal” — meaning “to eat” in the Mayan language — a new restaurant train designed to transform the journey through southeastern Mexico into an immersive gastronomic experience.
Mexico’s national drink may be tequila, but beer is making an increasingly compelling case for the crown.
In this monthly series, we republisha few of the headlines from our Juneeditions of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.
1966
New golf course set for Lakeside
The administration of the Chapala Country Club has pledges for most of the 700,000 pesos budgeted to acquire land for a new golf course five miles east of Chapala, in San Nicolas. An additional 200,000 pesos has been designated for construction of the new clubhouse. Work has already started on the first nine holes.
Mexico’s president is finding herself in an increasingly precarious position as U.S. pressure intensifies against key figures in her party. Meanwhile, fresh allegations suggest that her predecessor and mentor feared what a captured drug lord might reveal about his former collaborators’ ties to the drug cartels.
Mexico has rolled out Autonomous Migration Filters (FMA) — self-service e-gates — at its major international airports to streamline entry for tourists. The program began in 2023 as a pilot at several airports, including Cancun and Mexico City, where wait times dropped significantly, authorities say. At some peak times, waits of over an hour have been reduced to as little as seven minutes, they report.
Cellphone users in Mexico have until June 30 to register their lines or face immediate service suspension.
As Mexico celebrates hosting the FIFA World Cup, a very different kind of energy is simmering beneath the surface. Social movements across the country are using the global spotlight to disrupt the festivities — and they are unrepentant about it.
Mexico, the United States and Canada will hold their first formal trilateral meeting on July 1 to begin the mandatory joint review of the USMCA trade agreement.
The Mexican government has significantly stepped up tax enforcement measures against foreign residents who remain in the country without fully regularizing their tax status, with particular focus on those staying here for more than 183 days per year.