Campaigns shutdown for 3 days prior to vote
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
Mexico will not have to wait long to get an indication of how the nation votes on Sunday.
With her support hovering just over three percent, former First Lady and federal congresswoman Margarita Zavala has bowed out of the race for the Mexican presidency.
Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, the number of Mexican students who have chosen to study in Canada has risen by 16 percent.
The prospect of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador becoming the next president of Mexico is making the country’s business community nervous.
No doubt fearing that history will repeat itself and he’ll be dislodged – as he was in 2006 – from his frontrunner position at the last minute, left-winger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (often referred to as AMLO) has accused several leading companies in Mexico of pressuring their employers into voting for Ricardo Anaya of the National Action Party (PAN) in the race for the presidency.
The case of the three missing film students has served as an unwelcome reminder of the 43 students kidnapped in Guerrero in September 2014 – an ugly stain on the national consciousness.
While at number 24 Mexico ranks fairly high on the U.N. World Happiness Report, a report by a venerable public hospital in Guadalajara has found that about 10 percent of the country’s population suffers from some form of depression.
In just a little more than two months Mexicans will go to the polls to decide who runs the country for the next six years from Los Pinos.