The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
President Claudia Sheinbaum appears on the main balcony of the National Palace alongside members of BTS on May 6, waving to a crowd of nearly 50,000 fans packed into Mexico City’s Zócalo ahead of the K‑pop group’s sold‑out concerts.
Regular visitors to Cancún will surely welcome last weekend’s inauguration of the long-awaited Puente Nichupté, an 8.8‑kilometer (5.5‑mile) bridge that reduces travel time between downtown Cancún and the main section of Hotel Zone from an hour to just ten minutes.
At last! Three years after its opening, Mexico City’s second airport has an essential direct rail connection to the capital’s central zone.
The federal government is hoping the new link will persuade more airlines to shift flights to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — the shiny new facility located northeast of the capital in Zumpango, State of Mexico — from the centrally located but saturated Mexico City International Airport (AICM).
The collapse of Spirit Airlines has left a gap in the growing Mexican market that other U.S. or Mexican carriers look likely to fill.
Mexico and the United States launched a second preliminary round of USMCA review negotiations on April 20, as U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer traveled to Mexico City for working sessions with Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard. The discussions centered on priority sectors including steel and aluminum, automotive, agriculture, rules of origin and trade policy coordination, reports said.
The Jalisco government deployed a massive security operation across the entire state on Monday, following the capture of the man considered the main successor to the fallen leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho.”
Mexico has been blissfully free of the kind of crazed lone-gunman attacks that have plagued the United States in recent decades. This country’s struggle with violence has been of a different nature: cartel wars, targeted assassinations, organized crime. But mass shootings by isolated, ideologically driven individuals? Those belonged somewhere else.
Aeroméxico has unveiled a new stopover program Tuesday, allowing international passengers to visit two Mexican destinations on a single ticket with no additional airfare.
Friday, May 1, Día del Trabajo, is an official statutory holiday in Mexico. Like the nation’s other six días de asueto, all salaried employees are entitled to a day off from their jobs on Labor Day, or regular pay plus double time for hours worked on that date.
