The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Voters go to the polls Sunday, June 7 in local and midterm national elections amid tight security following protests this week organized by radical teachers and other citizen groups that led to the burning and blockading of National Electoral Institute (INE) offices in the states of Oaxaca, Veracruz and Guerrero.
The family of a celebrated Marine Corps hero of the Iraq war, Mexican-born Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, has decided to accept a posthumous Navy Cross for valor nearly 11 years after he was killed in combat.
Despite repeated infringements of electoral laws, the polemic Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) won’t – for now at least – be stripped of its right to remain a political party but will banned from airing TV spots for the last three days of its campaign.
In the United States, more than 200,000 juveniles under the age of 18 are incarcerated after being tried in adult courts. Some children as young as 12 potentially face a lifetime of imprisonment for violent crimes committed before they even started middle school.
Aeromexico will launch a new direct daily flight between Mexico City and Vancouver on December 9.
A dengue vaccination could be ready before the end of the year and Mexico could be the first country to approve its use, according to federal Health Secretary Mercedes Juan.
A significant drop in the murder rate in Mexico last year is not only good news for the nation’s beleaguered president but a positive trend as Mexicans cling to the hope that the cycle of violence that has characterized so much of the last decade will eventually end.
Around 200 teachers and sympathizers took to the streets to protest working conditions and pay on National Teachers Day. Demonstrators marched down Avenida 16 de Septiembre in Guadalajara and gathered in the Plaza de Armas to hold a demonstration class to secondary school students.
Friday, May 1 is Dia del Trabajo in Mexico and a national holiday. All government offices, schools, diplomatic missions and many stores will close. Many towns and villages hold morning May Day parades through their centers. Guadalajara’s parade usually features labor unions and workers’ organizations, some of whom take the opportunity to highlight Mexico’s inequalities. Department stores, shops in malls and most restaurants will remain open. The Reporter will be on sale at almost all its usual locations.
