The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
If President Enrique Peña Nieto envisioned his visit to Washington and meeting with President Barack Obama sparking favorable coverage abroad and revitalizing his tarnished international image, the reality fell short.
–Mexican Stock Market (BMV) opened at 41,813.93 a decrease of 1,204.82 points from Thursday, December 31, 2014.
Juan Manuel Estrada Juarez, the director of the Guadalajara-based Fundación para Niños Robados y Desaparecidos (Foundation for Missing and Stolen Children or FIND) receives the Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2014 (2014 National Human Rights Award) from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on December 12.
A last-minute change of plan saw federal authorities lower the announced start-of-year gasoline price increase from three to 1.9 percent.
Public servants who are found guilty of torture could be sentenced to 20 years in jail after a reform to Jalisco State Penal Code was approved by Congress just prior to the holiday recess. The new law includes psychological as well as physical torture in its definition and is designed to prevent, sanction and eradicate the crime. The revised Penal Code legislates against “any public official who performs any act which inflicts mental or physical suffering on a person for the purpose of aiding a criminal investigation.”
While animal protection advocates applaud legal maneuvers to ban four-legged performers from Mexican circus shows, the new taboos raise some unforeseen issues regarding the future fate of an estimated 2,500 creatures kept by itinerant big top troupes that travel the national circuit.
Mexico’s Interior Ministry (Secretaría de Gobernación) will operate an amnesty program for illegal immigrants in the country beginning January 2 and running through December 31.
In one sense, the new year got off on the right foot for Mexican consumers the moment midnight struck on Thursday, with the introduction of a previously announced measure to scrap all national long-distance telephone charges.
Despite the recent peso slide and concerns about inflation and low growth in 2015, Mexico’s Central Bank board members have decided not to increase interest rates, which currently stand at a record low of around three percent.
