The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Declaring that “citizens must have the final word,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has officially asked the Senate to vote on whether to call a national referendum that would decide if five former presidents face criminal prosecution for alleged acts of corruption.
Last Sunday, facing Guadalajara’s central Plaza de Armas, political activists set up tables to collect signatures to request that a survey be carried out to decide whether to prosecute former Mexican presidents for alleged acts of corruption.
Between April and July of this year, Mexico registered 123,000 more deaths than in 2019. Only one-third of the 2020 deaths have been confirmed as Covid-19 related.
Mexico is set to receive 32 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, the government-backed Russian Direct Investments Fund (RDIF) announced this week in a press release.
The new warning labels on products that are high in saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium or calories are starting to appear on supermarket shelves in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
Christopher Landau, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, is among a list of 20 names released by U.S. President Donald Trump as potential Supreme Court candidates.
Mexico’s lower house (Camara de Diputados) this week unanimously approved legislation to strip former presidents of any kind of immunity from prosecution.
Don’t expect to hear any fireworks on the evening of September 15, as most “Grito” ceremonies across Mexico have been cancelled, in addition to Independence Day (September 16) parades.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is adamant that Mexico is about to make a speedy recovery from the economic contraction caused by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown of March, April and May.
