Cannabis deadline nears for Congress
Mexico’s lawmakers have until April 30 to come up with a regulatory framework for the legalization of marijuana.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mexico’s lawmakers have until April 30 to come up with a regulatory framework for the legalization of marijuana.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been criticized for announcing that as of 2021 all civic holidays will be celebrated on their actual day, not on the nearest Monday.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left everyone on tenterhooks Thursday, promising that he would announce the following day if he was going to raffle off his unwanted presidential plane via the National Lottery.
This country is experiencing an upswell of indignation at the wave of savage murders of women referred to as “femicides,” a term that is used when women are killed for “gender-specific reasons.”
Mexico will observe its first “puente” (long weekend) of 2020 over the next three or four days.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that former President Enrique Peña Nieto is being probed for possible corrupt practices, although the current Mexican chief executive says he is unaware of any such investigation.
New regulations mandating warning labels on certain food products have been approved by federal legislators in a bid to get Mexico’s obesity problem under control.
This week’s arrest of fugitive Emilio Lozoya, the former chief executive of the state-owned oil company Pemex, is a significant scalp for Pre
sident Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who made rooting out corruption in the highest echelons of Mexican society a key component of his 2018 campaign.
New job creation in Mexico in 2019 fell to its lowest level since the financial crisis of 2009, according to figures supplied by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).