The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
“Mexico: A gold medal for excuses,” ran one headline this week as the nation’s athletes failed to pick up a single medal in the first week of the Rio Olympics.
Mexicans faced a double whammy this week, with increases in the costs of both gasoline and electricity.
In his first ever media interview, notorious drug capo Rafael Caro Quintero said he is no longer a participant in the narcotics trafficking trade and disclaimed any involvement in the kidnap, torture and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1985 for which he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
More than 12,000 tins of chiles have been appropriated from the warehouses of food producers La Costeña by federal health inspectors.
Incidents of homophobia have increased in Mexico in the wake of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, a leading NGO attests.
For the first time, neither of Mexico’s two broadcasting giants, Televisa or TV Azteca, will be showing live coverage of the Olympic Games.
Italian airline Alitalia has launched a direct service from Mexico City to Rome, the “city of external love.”
The bodies of three Central American youngsters found washed up within the past week on disparate Pacific Ocean beaches in southern Mexico could spur this country, which many observers call exceptionally oriented toward children, to implement recent constitutional changes establishing the right for outsiders to seek asylum here, say human rights specialists working in the area.
Although speaking carefully so as not to encroach into the presidential campaign debate, recently arrived U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson said the proposal by presumptive Republican Party nominee Donald Trump to build a border wall would “not help” in furthering relations between the two nations.
