The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The president-elect’s honeymoon with Mexico’s private sector may be over before it has even properly started! Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that he will respect voters’ decision taken in last weekend’s referendum to scrap the partially-built US$13 billion new Mexico City airport in favor of upgrading the capital’s existing facility and transforming the Santa Lucia military airfield into a commercial operation.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends in Mexico on Sunday, October 28 at 2 a.m. Clocks must be turned back one hour.
The public’s favored acronym to replace TLCAN (the Mexican equivalent of NAFTA) is T-MEC, short for Tratado Mexico-Estados Unidos-Canada, according to a recent survey carried out on behalf of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The Jalisco government will take a humanistic approach when the Honduran migrant caravan passes through Guadalajara sometime in the next month, as expected.
As many as 400 federal police officers and soldiers have been deployed to Mexico’s southern border in anticipation of the arrival of a “caravan” of more than 4,000 Central American migrants heading to the United States.
The financial misfortunes of retail giant Sears in the United States will not impact stores in Mexico, according to Grupo Sanborns, which owns 99 percent of the south-of-the-border operation.
Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador is getting a head-start on the launch of sweeping social assistance programs with a nationwide census of needy Mexican families.
Former President Vicente Fox has been one of the highest profile champions for the movement to legalize soft drugs in Mexico.
One issue that portends to cast a shadow over the early days of the incoming Mexican presidency is the construction of the new Mexico City airport, which according to recent reports (and who you believe) is somewhere between one-fifth and one-third complete.
