The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Friday, August 22, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto swore in his much-touted gendarmerie, a new national police division that is expected to be free of the corruption that has plagued federal police forces for many decades.
Mexican authorities reacted swiftly to reduce the negative fallout from an updated U.S. State Department travel warning for this country released on Friday, August 15.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry (SRE) straight away hit back at the advisory’s claim that kidnappings “appear to be on the rise.”
President Enrique Peña Nieto has signed into law a major overhaul of the regulations governing Mexico’s telecommunications sector that he expects to bring down telephone charges, widen Internet access and generate greater competition amongst radio and television broadcasters.
Despite heated opposition from the country’s left-wing, Mexico’s lower house has approved secondary laws (enabling legislation) detailing the implementation of the energy reforms passed last year.
Citizens in all 125 of Jalisco’s municipalities are to be polled on whether they believe marijuana use should be decriminalized.
Thousands of Central American illegal immigrants ride on top of a freight train in Mexico known as “The Beast” in order to reach the United States.
As yet, Mexico has not been included on the list of nations that are being asked not to allow cellphones and computers that cannot be powered up on to flights bound for the United States.
Three new political parties have debuted in Mexico – two of them on opposing ends of the ideological scale.
The Mexican government’s prolonged offensive on the nation’s powerful drug cartels has relegated domestic and international coverage of the Zapatista indigenous movement to a mere footnote.
