New parties put down political marker
Three new political parties have debuted in Mexico – two of them on opposing ends of the ideological scale.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Three new political parties have debuted in Mexico – two of them on opposing ends of the ideological scale.
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.
Thousands of doctors, nurses, health care workers and hospital employees took to the streets of Guadalajara and 70 other Mexican towns and cities Sunday to demand that medical malpractice be disqualified as a criminal offense.
Citizens in all 125 of Jalisco’s municipalities are to be polled on whether they believe marijuana use should be decriminalized.
Mexico City has another top-class attraction to delight locals and visitors after telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim cut the ribbon at the capital’s first large-scale aquarium last week.
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.
President Enrique Peña Nieto has announced that Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to visit Mexico on an as yet unspecified date.
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.
The prevalence of bullying at schools in Jalisco has increased by 37 percent over the past three years, says National Action Party (PAN) federal legislator Lucia Perez Camarena, who this week launched the anti-bullying campaign “No pego, no agredo, sí respeto” (loosely translated as “I don’t hit, I don’t insult, I respect”).