The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
recently stumbled upon an interesting Facebook thread about candlelight drawings scratched on the wall of a Spanish Inquisition jail cell in the early 1500s.
“Where the devil did you disappear to?” I asked a Mexican friend who had suddenly vanished off WhatsApp for more than a week.
Santuario Diocesano de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, or the Santuario Guadalupano, was finally finished in 2008, 110 years after construction began.
REVIVE stands for Red de Viveros de Biodiversidad. It’s a network of plant nurseries founded in Veracruz in 2020 dedicated to biodiversity, and collaborates with at least 40 other nurseries to supply the plants, seeds and training needed for reforesting.
The temperatures are soaring, Guadalajara is baking and todo el mundo is going off to crowded beaches and balnearios (water parks), but there are alternatives.
Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. John Wright came to Mexico to study pyroclastic flows: great “rivers” of incandescent volcanic ash that flowed across the landscape some 95,000 years ago when a huge, explosive volcanic eruption occurred not far from what is now Guadalajara.
The state of San Luis Potosí is famed for its breathtaking landscapes, especially its fantastic waterfalls, rivers and cliffs — not to mention some surrealistic sculpture gardens.
