The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, the Mexican drug capo who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, has denounced his treatment in solitary confinement, describing it as “inhuman.”
Marijuana reform activists were cautiously optimistic this week after Mexico’s lower house (Camara de Diputados) approved a bill that will allow adults to smoke cannabis legally and grow their own plants.
During a visit this week from his Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernández, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador struck out at wealthy nations, whom he accuses of hoarding Covid-19 vaccines.
Lupita Jones, the first Mexican to win the Miss Universe crown in 1991, has thrown her hat in the ring to run for governor of Baja California, under the banner of the tri-party coalition that brings together the Partido Revolutionario Institutional (PRI), Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) and Partido de la Revolution Democratica (PRD).
Mexico’s Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE) has ruled out the existence of a Mexican variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus after analyzing four samples in which a mutation was identified by University of Guadalajara (UdG) researchers.
Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday that several million doses of China’s CanSino Biologics vaccine which are being packaged at the Drugmex pharmaceutical company in the state of Queretero, will be ready for distribution throughout the country by the end of March.
To avoid further blackouts in northern Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called on Mexicans to regulate their electricity use between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
The federal government has been forced to come out and clarify that all resident foreigners in Mexico are entitled to free Covid-19 vaccines after reports from some inoculation sites that citizens without National Electoral Institute (INE) credentials were being denied shots.
Brigades of health workers began to apply the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines designated for citizens over age 60 in 23 Jalisco municipalities as of Tuesday, February 16.
