Mexico marks New Year with eclectic observances
Like folks all around the globe, most Mexican people will bid farewell to 2004 with spirited social gatherings, sharing goodwill hugs and raising a glass of bubbly as they welcome the new year.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Like folks all around the globe, most Mexican people will bid farewell to 2004 with spirited social gatherings, sharing goodwill hugs and raising a glass of bubbly as they welcome the new year.
A dual U.S. and Mexican citizen suspected of a brutal murder in Maryland in 2010 was arrested in Guadalajara on December 13, the Montgomery County Department of Police has reported.
According to an exclusive report in the Milenio newspaper, business magnate Elon Musk has agreed to open a Tesla plant to produce electric vehicles in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon in early 2023.
Across Mexico it is customary to for people to concentrate Navidad (Christmas) festivities on the night of December 24 — Nochebuena, rather than the following day.
Already lambasted for a perceived anti-feminist stance, the Mexican government has been further criticized for abstaining in a United Nations resolution to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women,
Yet again, Mexicans will be hit by turn of the year price increases, with some hikes kicking in prior to the Christmas holidays.
Employees in Mexico will be expecting a little extra in their pay packet prior to Christmas.
Off-the-cuff boastful statements by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador should often be taken with a large pinch of salt, his detractors consistently point out.
Legislators in the Chamber of Deputies rushed through watered-down tweaks to Mexico’s electoral system after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s wider package of reforms was unable to obtain the two-thirds majority required to activate changes to provisions of the Mexican Constitution.