The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In a bizarre comment even by the standards of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican president promised to launch a campaign to demolish the Statue of Liberty if the United States fails to drop charges against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.
When Ken Salazar, the United States ambassador to Mexico, assumed his role in September 2021, he probably did not imagine that his fiercest criticism would come from media outlets within his own country, from the liberal-leaning The New York Times, no less.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been condemned by the Jewish community in Mexico after calling one of his fiercest critics, a prominent Jewish citizen, “Hitlerite.”
This week, Mexico passed six million officially confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, with Wednesday’s daily case load totaling 23,148, and 31 deaths.
Lawmakers from the Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) will submit a proposal in the federal Chamber of Deputies that would ease the process for Mexicans to legally own weapons and obtain permits to carry them on their persons.
A proposal by the Citizen’s Movement (MC) would see the legal number of vacation days that employers must give their staff in their first year of labor increase from six to 12.
A sharp increase in Covid-19 cases has many health officials talking of a “fifth wave” in Mexico.
After remaining in the shadows for almost a decade, former Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez has reappeared, offering a damning appraisal of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who he accuses of heading “a government at the service of the cartels.”
With inflation showing no sign of easing, the Banco de Mexico, the country’s central bank, Thursday raised its benchmark interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to 7.75 percent.
