The Guadalajara Reporter
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Despite the continuing fall in international oil prices, the cost of a liter of Magna and Diesel gas will stay the same in February, Mexico’s Treasury Department has announced.
The drop in global oil prices may force Mexico to make cuts to sensitive areas, including security funding, that will delay essential anti-crime reforms, geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor said Thursday.
Fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been captured, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday. “Mission accomplished: we have him,” he tweeted.
A shortage of qualified English teachers means that only three percent of students at Mexico’s primary and secondary public schools can actually speak the language to any degree of fluency.
On the morning of Saturday, January 2, less than 24 hours after she was sworn in as the new mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Gisela Mota Ocampo, 33, was shot to death in her home, allegedly by a commando of paid assassins.
“Mission accomplished: we have him,” President Enrique Peña Nieto tweeted shortly after Mexican Marines confirmed the capture of fugitive Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on January 8.
Immigration doesn’t always have to be a polemic issue as far as Mexico’s northern neighbors are concerned. Take Canada’s migrant farm worker system, in which Mexicans travel north for seasonal jobs, many returning to the same employers year after year.
Some economists believe the pressure on the peso may continue for at least another six months, possibly provoking an inflationary spiral, especially if wobbly global financial markets fail to stabilize.
Many personalities found their way on to the pages of the Guadalajara Reporter in 2015, for many different reasons. Some were celebrated, some vilified, others mourned. Here are ten men and women who featured in the local, regional or national headlines last year. What brought them to public attention?
