The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Inflation in Mexico dropped for the ninth consecutive two-weekly period between September 1 and 14, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
Unlike in 2020 when the pandemic was the key issue on many people’s minds, immigration is likely to feature prominently in the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign, representing a potential weak spot for President Joe Biden, who in an ABC News/Washington Post poll released last week trailed former president Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, by an astonishing nine points.
The debate rages on whether humanoid corpses displayed last week in Mexico’s Congress by ufologist Jaime Maussan are “aliens,” terrestrial in origin, or simply clever fakes.
Mexico has not forgotten the enforced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher Training School in Guerrero state—one of the darkest incidents in the country’s recent history.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has restored Mexico’s aviation safety rating to the highest level after the country was downgraded more than two years ago.
Soaring numbers of migrants heading to the U.S. border through Mexico in recent weeks, most of them from Central and South America, prompted rail company Ferromex to temporarily suspend service of around 60 freight train routes.
Mexico will launch a free nationwide Covid-19 vaccine booster campaign in October, although the only shots on offer are likely to be Cuba’s Abdala and Russia’s Sputnik brands.
Mexico’s federal government has been criticized for inviting representatives of the Russian military to participate in the September Independence Day parade in Mexico City.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador joined other heads of state in Santiago, Chile September 11 to mark the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat in which the Chilean armed forces toppled President Salvador Allende, who in 1970 had become the first democratically elected Marxist leader in Latin America.
