The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The first of three scheduled debates among the three candidates running for the Mexican presidency—Claudia Sheinbaum (Morena-PT-PVEM), Xóchitl Gálvez (PAN-PRI-PRD) and Jorge Máynez (Movimiento Ciudadano)—turned out to be a damp squib, in the view of many political analysts.
Local authorities in Mazatlan handed out more than 150,000 free glasses for safe viewing of the April 8 solar eclipse.
Monday, March 18 is a national statutory holiday commemorating the birth of Benito Juarez on March 21, 1806.
At the start of 1994, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari hand-picked Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, his social development minister, to represent the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the summer general election.
Our region of Mexico has an delightful abundance of colorful tree varieties—Jacarandas, Primaveras and Tabachines among the most stunning—that augment the many charms to be found here.
Mexico reacted strongly after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday saw Texas’ controversial SB4 law come into effect for a few hours, although it is not clear whether any arrests of migrants were made during this time.
Eight journalists have been killed while enrolled in Mexico’s Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists in the last seven years, a figure that highlights the urgent need to strengthen and reform the institution, said Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) upon publication of a joint investigation into the mechanism.
The excitement is building for first major eclipse of the sun in North America since 2017, visible from Mexico, 14 U.S. states and southeastern Canada on Monday, April 8.
As the politicking revs up before the June 2 elections, it will become almost impossible to block out the torrent of outrage espousing from candidates regarding criminality and the weak impartation of justice in Mexico.
