The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Tim Hortons, Canada’s largest quick service restaurant chain famed for its coffee and donuts, is preparing to open its first cafes in Mexico.
The tensions in the Mexico-U.S. relationship that have surfaced since Donald Trump won last year’s presidential election are the main reason for the decrease in the number of Mexican students applying for places at U.S. universities and colleges, according to a report by the American Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO).
Not content with the fortunes generated by his telecommunications and dozens of ancillary businesses, Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim, is now trying to make inroads in the lucrative automobile sector.
Mexican Customs (Aduana) is experimenting with a new entry procedure at Terminal Two of the Mexico City International Airport that eliminates the requirement for passengers from foreign destinations to pass through the red/green “traffic light.”
Six out of every ten visitors who entered Mexico in 2016 were from the United States, according to a report issued recently by the National Tourism Council (CNET) and the Universidad Anáhuac.
Legislators in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the federal Congress, have approved changes to laws governing the aviation industry that will oblige airlines to reimburse passengers up to 25 percent of the ticket cost when flights are delayed for more than four hours under certain conditions.
CFE complaints
Nine out of ten complaints filed against the Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s electric utility, concern disputed charges, the federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) reports.
The stunning arrests of two fugitive former state governors within the space of six days might be the spark that beleaguered President Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) were looking for to curry some much-needed favor with Mexico’s disillusioned citizenry.
Many players in the U.S. agriculture sector are imploring President Donald Trump not to do anything drastic that would upset the huge benefits that the North American Free Agreement (Nafta) brings to American farmers, the New York Times reports.
