The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
“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?
Fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been captured, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday. “Mission accomplished: we have him,” he tweeted.
Tapatios and area residents will have to wait a little longer before they are able to take their first direct flight to Europe.
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.
At a brief photo opportunity with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington D.C. last week, Mexican Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu hailed the “shared vision” of the bilateral relationship and “the need for us to keep on working together to make our region more prosperous, inclusive, and secure.”
