{"id":27,"date":"2024-01-06T20:18:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:15:26","slug":"about-mexico-news-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/about-mexico-news-report\/","title":{"rendered":"About Mexico News Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the Mexico News Report<\/em>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I propose to do is provide an English-language platform for news about Mexico, which is often ignored and misrepresented in the Mainstream Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Americans, Mexico is our neighbor to the south.  Yet many Americans don\u2019t really know that much about Mexico, or understand the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when I say \u201cmany Americans\u201d that includes many politicians, lawmakers, journalists and academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. news coverage of Mexican news leaves something to be desired.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some useful news reports coming from the Mainstream Media.  But taken as a whole, English-language reporting on Mexico is lacking something.  It\u2019s unbalanced.    A lot of things just don\u2019t get reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember back in the 1990s, when I was residing in Mexico.  I read a New York Times<\/em> article about something that occurred in Mexico, in the same metropolitan area in which I resided.   The article had an enormous error about something in that area.   It was totally wrong.  The error was about a subject that could have been very easily investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote to the New York Times<\/em>, correcting the error, but I never received a reply.  I\u2019m guessing my letter was just tossed into the trash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I resided in Mexico many years, and there was always something interesting going on, much of it not properly reported on in the U.S. media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There ought to be more comprehensive coverage.  After all, Mexicans are our next-door neighbors, and what happens in Mexico can easily affect us here in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is located south of the United States.  See map below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

  Source: Geology.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four U.S. states: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, are on the U.S. border with Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 758,449 square miles, Mexico is big.  It\u2019s the 14th<\/sup> biggest country in the world by area.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a geographically diverse country, with every sort of natural landscape you could imagine, including deserts, jungles, forests, beaches, lakes, rivers, mountains and snow-capped volcanoes.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are huge cities, medium-sized cities, towns and villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The population of Mexico is approximately 130 million, making it the tenth most-populated country in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capital is Mexico City, one of the world\u2019s biggest cities.  It\u2019s not only the political capital of the country, but the economic, financial and cultural capital as well.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico has some great tourist attractions.  There are pre-Hispanic ruins, colonial architecture, beaches, museums and the geographical diversity mentioned above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the U.S.A., Mexico is organized into states.   The country has 31 states.  The capital, Mexico City, is not officially considered a state but is the equivalent of a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is the world\u2019s largest Spanish-speaking country.  In addition to the Spanish language, there are Indian languages spoken in some regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mexican federal government is organized like that of the United States, with an executive branch, a bicameral Congress and a Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the U.S. president has a four-year term and the opportunity to be re-elected, the Mexican president has a six-year term and cannot be re-elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current president is Claudia Sheinbaum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two chambers of the bicameral Congress are the Senado<\/em> (the Senate), with 128 senators, elected to six-year terms ; and the C\u00e1mara de Diputados<\/em>, the Chamber of Deputies, equivalent of our House of Representatives, with 500 representatives,  up for election every three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexican state governments have governors, legislatures and courts, and then there are municipal governments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are plenty of things occurring in Mexico that would be of interest to American readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you can join me on the Mexico News Report<\/em>.\u00a0 If you would like to be on my mailing list, click here<\/a>, write me and request that. You can also follow on Twitter X here<\/a> or on Facebook here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to Mexico News Report<\/em> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the Mexico News Report?   What I propose to do is provide an English-language platform for news about Mexico, which is often ignored and misrepresented in the Mainstream Media. For Americans, Mexico is our neighbor to the south.  Yet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}