The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
This week, President Claudia Sheinbaum launched the construction of the Mexico City-Querétaro train line, marking the first phase of a project that will eventually extend passenger rail service to Guadalajara and two U.S. border locations: Nogales and Nuevo Laredo.
In her early musings on international affairs, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has set a tone that will probably define her approach to taking sides in conflicts: neutrality, or to put it more crudely, fence-sitting.
Mexico City’s Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), one of the flagship projects of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has been nominated as one of the most beautiful airports in the world by the World Prize for Architecture and Design, also known as the Prix Versailles.
The Jewish community of Mexico City reaffirmed its solidarity with Israel on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 slaughter in northern Israel.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Security and Citizen Protection Minister Omar García Harfuch teamed up this week to outline the federal government’s new National Security Strategy, which has the chief aim of reducing the 200,000 homicides that cast a dark shadow over former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term.
In an encouraging moment of solidarity, Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon De la Fuente this week met up with Daniel Karam, president of the Lebanese Center in Mexico City, and Elías Achar of the Jewish community in the capital.
Omar García Harfuch, the new head of Mexico’s Security and Citizen Protection Ministry (SSPC), represents the third generation of a Jalisco family with deep—and controversial—ties to national law enforcement and defense, particularly during the height of the 70-year reign of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
On October 16, a U.S. District judge handed down a 38-year prison term to Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former public security minister who spearheaded the controversial “War on Drugs” crackdown during the 2006-2012 presidency of Felipe Calderón.
Ifigenia Martha Martínez y Hernández, the 99-year-old pioneer of the Mexican left, passed away just three days after presiding over the congressional session in which Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico’s first female president.
