The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The man tasked with heading a new federal institute to sell and distribute goods recovered from drug traffickers and organized crime has resigned, claiming the agency is plagued by corruption.
Facing financial meltdown, domestic low-cost carrier Interjet is offering a rapid Covid-19 self-detection kit and N95 masks certified by the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Copefris), among other measures.
Christopher Landau, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, is among a list of 20 names released by U.S. President Donald Trump as potential Supreme Court candidates.
Declaring that “citizens must have the final word,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has officially asked the Senate to vote on whether to call a national referendum that would decide if five former presidents face criminal prosecution for alleged acts of corruption.
Don’t expect to hear any fireworks on the evening of September 15, as most “Grito” ceremonies across Mexico have been cancelled, in addition to Independence Day (September 16) parades.
Last Sunday, facing Guadalajara’s central Plaza de Armas, political activists set up tables to collect signatures to request that a survey be carried out to decide whether to prosecute former Mexican presidents for alleged acts of corruption.
Between April and July of this year, Mexico registered 123,000 more deaths than in 2019. Only one-third of the 2020 deaths have been confirmed as Covid-19 related.
Mexico is set to receive 32 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, the government-backed Russian Direct Investments Fund (RDIF) announced this week in a press release.
The new warning labels on products that are high in saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium or calories are starting to appear on supermarket shelves in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.