The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In a controversy not dissimilar to the battles raging in some U.S. states, a row has exploded in Mexico over the content of the free text books that are distributed to educación básica (primary and secondary) school children at the start of each academic year.
July 2023 is on track to be the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Amid the hoopla surrounding the launch of the feature film “Barbie,” an activist in northern Mexico has created a “Barbie Buscadora” (Barbie Searcher), replicating the mothers and relatives of missing persons who focus on locating clandestine graves and mass burial sites across Mexico.
Ferrero, the second biggest chocolate producer and confectionery company in the world, is collaborating with the Jalisco government to kick start the “Joy of Moving,” a scientifically recognized methodology that aims to get children moving through play while developing key skills in major areas such as physical fitness, motor coordination, cognitive function, creativity and life skills.
There are plenty of reasons why obtaining Pueblo Magico status is not all it’s cracked up to be. (See Dale Palfrey “Magic or mayhem in Ajijic,” GR edition 7/8/2023).
An international NGO that investigates violations of “the rights of nature” has given a massive thumbs down to the Mayan Tourist Train project that is set to open in December.
Various civilian organizations last weekend carried out a nationwide effort to highlight the illegal electoral propaganda that is being put up by the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) Party for their “pre-candidates” for the Mexican presidential election in 2024.
The United Sates will be the invited country of honor at the upcoming Cervantino Festival in the city of Guanajuato, scheduled October 13 to 29.
The Reforma newspaper group led its editions on Monday with an exclusive report of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of an explosion earlier this month at a Pemex gas platform in which two people died.
