The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Amid an ongoing dispute over the suitability of the federal government’s free textbooks, just over 24 million educación básica (primary and secondary school) students returned to classes Monday, August 26 for Mexico’s 2023-24 academic year.
As anticipated, Xóchitl Gálvez, the 60-year-old senator from the National Action Party (PAN), will be the opposition alliance’s candidate in next year’s presidential election.
Presidential hopeful Claudia Sheinbaum (right) gets a warm embrace from a supporter as she touched down in Guadalajara on Thursday for her penultimate “primary season” rally before her Morena Party decides on its candidate in the 2024 election.
At a Trumpless debate of Republican presidential hopefuls in Milwaukee on August 23, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he would declare a national emergency and send troops to the southern border, and even into Mexico, on “day one” of his presidency.
A cautionary warning about Covid in Mexico issued by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) has been played down by federal health authorities, as well the Jalisco state government.
A news report by Mexican journalists showing how a fentanyl laboratory operates in Mexico has been nominated for an Emmy. The 20-minute segment by the N+ news channel is up for an award in the category of Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish.
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.
A climate of uncertainty surrounds the start of the 2023-24 academic year for Jalisco’s primary and secondary school students, set for Monday, August 28.
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.
