The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador this week declared his Mayan Train project a matter of national security, clearing the way to sidestep many of the legal hurdles that are delaying construction on some stretches of the 1,400-kilometer tourist train line.
Should Caro Quintero be extradited to the United States, authorities there may try to bring charges against him for the abduction, torture and murder of U.S. citizens John Clay Walker and Albert Radelat, who disappeared in January 1985 in Guadalajara.
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.
Unsurprisingly,there were few tributes paid this week to Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976, who has died at 100 years of age.
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’s initiative to eliminate Daylight Saving Time in Mexico has been sent to the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) for debate.
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.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s war on tobacco looks like it won’t let up any time soon.
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.
