The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
With less than four months to go before Mexico elects a new president, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a comfortable 14-point lead over his closest rival, according to most polls.
In a move that some diplomatic sources say was not entirely unexpected, Roberta Jacobson, the highly respected U.S. ambassador to Mexico for the past two years, has announced she will be leaving the post in the first week of May.
In the recently released 2017-2018 version of the “Rule of Law Index,” Mexico isn’t being spared the rod in regards to its criminal justice system, coming in behind both El Salvador and Iran in the index’s estimation.
Homages to the Mexican flag will be paid across the length and breadth of the nation on Saturday, February 24 – Dia de la Bandera.
If an agreement is reached between Mexican and U.S. authorities, some commercial flights between the two countries will come complete with stun gun-toting American federal marshals.
According to Banco de Mexico, 2017 saw the seizure of over 335,000 counterfeit bills, totaling close to 112 million pesos. The most common denomination?
While Carnaval celebrations in Mexico lack the global name recognition of places like Rio de Janiero, New Orelans and Venice, high-spirited revelry will be unleashed nationwide from this weekend, coming to a crescendo on Shrove Tuesday, February 13.
A two-month old Bengal tiger was discovered inside a large package, Monday, February 5, at a mail service company inside the city’s large Central Nueva bus station.
Teams of federal police officers are being drafted into tourist areas of Mexico in a bid to put the brake on drug gang turf wars and counter the negativity surrounding the country’s soaring crime and homicide rates.
