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The long-awaited Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta highway, which makes it easier and faster to reach the Pacific resort cities of Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas by car, is finally fully open — 13 years after work on the 310-kilometer roadway was first approved. An inaugural ceremony on Satuday in Bahía de Banderas led by President Claudia Sheinbaum and members of her cabinet celebrated the opening of the final stretch of the highway — a 33-kilometer segment along the Pacific Coast that extends from Bucerías, Nayarit, to Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. The highway makes travel between the two cities much shorter and provides increased access to Puerto Vallarta’s airport. it is expected to increase domestic tourism in the region. (SICT) The new roadway also provides a direct link between Tepic, the Nayarit state capital, and the beach resorts in and around Puerto Vallarta, reducing travel time from three hours to 90 minutes. The strategic infrastructure project has been delayed mult...

In an effort to address the problem of severe water shortages in Mexico City, Mayor Clara Brugada announced this week a plan calling for the metropolis of 22.5 million people to halve its reliance on the Cutzamala reservoir system for the next two years. Elected to office on June 2 and sworn in on Oct. 5, Brugada announced the strategy during the inauguration of the city’s first Agua Bienestar purification plant in the Coyoacán borough on Monday. Brugada inaugurated the Coyoacán Agua Bienestar purification plant on Monday. (Clara Brugada/Twitter) The plant is going to help solve water problems, as well, the Morena party member noted. Starting next Monday, 19-liter garrafones (jugs) of purified water will be sold mainly to low-income residents and those in areas that suffer from chronic shortages — for only five pesos (US 24 cents) each, with an additional 80 pesos (US $3.83) up-front cost for the reusable plastic jug. A filled 19- or 20-liter garrafón in Mexico generally retai...

Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (SRE) lamented the death of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who died at his home in Georgia on Sunday aged 100. In a message posted to X , the SRE offered “its most sincere condolences … to the family of the former president, as well as to the people and government of the United States for this regrettable loss.” El @GobiernoMX , a través de la @SRE_mx , expresa sus más sinceras condolencias por el fallecimiento del ex presidente de Estados Unidos, James E. Carter Jr., ocurrido hoy en su natal Georgia. México extiende sus condolencias a la familia del ex mandatario, así como al pueblo y al… — Relaciones Exteriores (@SRE_mx) December 30, 2024 As president from 1977-1981, Carter broke with prevailing U.S. foreign policy early in his term, outlining a vision based on protecting human rights.  Carter proclaimed a new era in U.S.-Mexico relations, while also pledging to end the tradition of U.S. interventionism in Latin America. Additional...

President Claudia Sheinbaum said Sunday that Mexico is “perhaps” the most democratic country in the world given that it will hold judicial elections in 2025. Speaking at an event in Tlaxcala , Sheinbaum highlighted that a number of constitutional reforms were approved by Congress in recent months , allowing Mexico to “recover the social sense” and the “patriotic sense of our Constitution.” The visit to Tlaxcala concluded Sheinbaum’s presidential tour of all 32 Mexican states. (Presidencia) “Thanks to senators and deputies, this year something unique in Mexico and the whole world was approved. Next year, on June 1, thanks to one of the reforms to the Constitution, the judicial power will be elected by the people of Mexico,” she said, eliciting cheers and applause from attendees of the event in Panotla, Tlaxcala. Sheinbaum noted that Mexico’s president and lawmakers are already “democratically elected” before emphasizing that the nation’s judges will soon be chosen by citizens as w...

Authorities have discovered 17 bodies in clandestine graves in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. The Chiapas Attorney General’s Office and the state Security Ministry said Sunday that 15 bodies were found in the municipality of La Concordia in recent days, while two additional bodies were located in Palenque. All 17 bodies belonged to men. The bodies of 15 men were found in clandestine graves in La Concordia, Chiapas. An additional two bodies were uncovered in Palenque, near the border with Campeche. (Google) La Concordia is located in southern Chiapas near the border region where the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel are engaged in a long-running turf war. Palenque, a municipality in northeastern Chiapas on the state’s border with Tabasco, is best known for the Palenque archaeological site. It is part of a region that has also been affected by cartel violence . Chiapas Attorney General Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca told a press conference on Sunday that the ...

The unexplained disappearance of one of the two giraffes at the Culiacán Zoo, in the capital city of Sinaloa , has captivated local residents and sparked a wave of viral memes. The zoo’s new director, José María “Chema” Casanova Rodríguez, confirmed Thursday that when he assumed his role on Nov. 7, the giraffe was already absent. Casanova said determining the animal’s fate falls to his predecessor, Diego García Heredia, who oversaw the zoo during the giraffe’s last recorded presence. La jirafa que anda perdida del Zoo de Culiacán, anda turisteando por la ciudad pic.twitter.com/pSGQflKWe3 — Culiacán, Sinaloa (@EsCuliacan) December 27, 2024 “When I arrived, the [second] giraffe was no longer there,” explained Casanova, who was a Morena city council member in Culiacán, from 2021 to earlier this year. “The [outgoing director] is the one who has to give that answer. As in all zoos … there is a possibility that there was an exchange between zoos, or that there was a death — if so, t...

The Mexican government announced on Friday that it is working to develop a “panic button” for migrants in the United States who think they might soon be detained by U.S. immigration authorities. The effort involves a cellphone app created in response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s warnings that he will carry out mass deportations upon taking office on Jan. 20, 2025. #deportaciones Botón de pánico para migrantes en EEUU anuncia Juan Ramón de la Fuente SRE pic.twitter.com/8GnLbugqVk — Odilón García (@odilon_garcia) December 27, 2024 Speaking at President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference on Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente said the app will allow users to press a button that immediately sends a notification to previously selected relatives and the nearest Mexican consulate.  Describing the device as a sort of “panic button” for Mexicans in the United States, De la Fuente said small-scale testing has proven that the app “appears to be working...

More than 650,000 Mexicans got a little something extra in their Christmas stockings this year when President Claudia Sheinbaum signed into law labor reforms benefitting gig workers on digital platforms such as Uber, DiDi and Rappi. The new landmark regulations in the Federal Labor Law were published Christmas Eve in the Official Gazette of the Federation, which serves to inform the public and ensure transparency. They take effect June 22, 2025. Congrats to our partners @UNTA_Mexico on delivering a victory for #appworkers #Mexico ’s Congress unanimously approved legislation providing labor rights & protections for #platformworkers . UNTA’s organizing, advocacy & win will be a major reference for app workers around the pic.twitter.com/8IY6NSvh5o — Solidarity Center (@SolidarityCntr) December 24, 2024 The news of the labor law reform protecting gig workers was celebrated both here and outside Mexico by labor advocates. The reform recognizes, for the first time in M...

As 2024 draws to a close, Mexico is expecting freezing nights and warm days thanks to another winter cold front , according to the National Meteorological System (SMN). Weather forecasts predict cold front No. 18 will enter the country from the northwest, followed by polar air moving in from the Pacific towards the Altiplano, or Central Mexican Plateau. This weather phenomenon will affect all of Mexico except for the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and the southwest. Te informamos el #Pronóstico del tiempo para las siguientes horas en la #CDMX . pic.twitter.com/mbbpfCW9VQ — CONAGUA Clima (@conagua_clima) December 26, 2024 These weather conditions will generate windy conditions in several states. Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango can expect winds of 20 to 30 kilometers per hour with gusts of 40 to 60 kilometers per hour. Heavy rains are expected in Quintana Roo, with lighter squalls predicted for the rest of the Yucatán Peninsula and ...

We are approaching the end of another year of big news in Mexico. It was a historic year, as Mexicans elected a female president for the first time ever. It was a year of change, as Claudia Sheinbaum took office, Andrés Manuel López Obrador left public life after a long political career and various modifications were made to the Mexican Constitution. And, unfortunately, 2024 was also a violent year in Mexico, as the country’s notorious cartels continued to fight each other — and in the case of the Sinaloa Cartel, itself. Of course plenty of other adjectives and nouns could be used to describe 2024 in Mexico: A year of hope. An uncertain year. A record-breaking year . A year of extreme weather. As we did at the end of 2023 , Mexico News Daily looked back at the year that was and selected 10 news and politics stories that we believe are among the biggest of 2024. In some cases they are stories that are ongoing, stories with no clear end or resolution in sight, stories that we will c...