General News

On the morning of Saturday, January 2, less than 24 hours after she was sworn in as the new mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Gisela Mota Ocampo, 33, was shot to death in her home, allegedly by a commando of paid assassins.

At a brief photo opportunity with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington D.C. last week, Mexican Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu hailed the “shared vision” of the bilateral relationship and “the need for us to keep on working together to make our region more prosperous, inclusive, and secure.”

Immigration doesn’t always have to be a polemic issue as far as Mexico’s northern neighbors are concerned. Take Canada’s migrant farm worker system, in which Mexicans travel north for seasonal jobs, many returning to the same employers year after year.     

Mexico’s minimum wage goes up by around four percent from January 1, a hike criticized by some as insufficient to meet the needs of the country’s poorest citizens. Some 13 percent of Mexico’s workforce still earn the minimum salary, which pales in comparison to those of other developed nations.  A minimum salary is not enough to cover even the basic necessities of a Mexican family, many NGOs say. 

Many personalities found their way on to the pages of the Guadalajara Reporter in 2015, for many different reasons. Some were celebrated, some vilified, others mourned. Here are ten men and women who featured in the local, regional or national headlines last year. What brought them to public attention?