The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Twenty alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were detained during operations carried out from August 21 to 23 in the states of Jalisco, Hidalgo and Michoacán, Mexico’s Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch announced this week.
Back-to-school expenses in Mexico will rise 13.8 percent in 2026, averaging 12,422 pesos per student, up from 10,916 pesos last year, according to the National Alliance of Small Traders.
The staggered cutoff schedule this month for mandatory cellphone-line identification takes effect next week.
The Trump administration has delivered a stunning blow to the heart of Mexico’s ruling party.
On August 13, Andrés “Andy” Manuel López Beltrán — the son of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and a key political operator within the Morena party — announced that the United States had revoked his entry visa.
The United States is gradually restoring its avocado inspections in Michoacan after a security threat halted all exports, while reiterating its Level 4 travel advisory for the violence-plagued state.
Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, a retired general and former Sinaloa State Public Security Secretary, is reportedly negotiating with U.S. federal prosecutors in the explosive U.S. case against a sitting Mexican governor.
Mexico has begun requiring a sanitary inspection certificate for dogs and birds entering from the United States, as part of a bilateral agreement to strengthen controls against the New World screwworm, the parasitic fly whose larvae infest livestock and other warm-blooded animals.
The 49th Premio Nacional de Cerámica, Mexico’s most prestigious pottery and craft competition, concluded in record-breaking fashion in Tlaquepaque at the end of July.
Mexico’s Senate has opened a public consultation on a proposed federal law that would standardize the prosecution of femicide nationwide and impose prison sentences of 50 to 70 years for convicted offenders.