General News

Forget international politics. One of the biggest stories floating around the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders’ summit this week in the Philippines concerned the relative handsomeness of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The very fact that Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Pierre Alarie sat down for an interview with the Guadalajara Reporter this week is an example of the huge political culture shift that has rocked Ottawa since Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau took office on November 4.

More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the United States than have migrated there since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of recently made  available government data from both countries.

Pope Francis will visit Mexico in February 2016 but Guadalajara is not on the schedule, church officials here have confirmed.

After a long delay, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved U.S. State Department official Roberta Jacobson as the new U.S ambassador to Mexico.

In a landmark ruling Wednesday, Mexico’s Supreme Court agreed in a 4-1 vote that four members of a nonprofit organization will be allowed to grow and smoke marijuana. 

Fernando del Paso, one of Mexico’s most famous living authors who has made his home in Guadalajara for the past two decades, has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor.

Two women hikers who died after a tree fell on their tent in Tapalpa cannot be considered “victims” of Hurricane Patricia because they failed to heed warnings and take refuge in local cabins, senior Jalisco government officials said Monday.