The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The New York Times recently entertained us with an inviting review of what it called “A Square Meal, a culinary history of the Great Depression,” featuring the post-election days of Herbert Hoover and his dreams that led he and his family to preside over “multicourse” banquets at which dinner jackets were required. Dinner jackets soon began to disappear.
Late August and early September 1994 brought the rains that much of the countryside expected to get in July.
Several tons of rhetoric have been uttered and written about Miguel Hidalgo y Costillo, the Catholic priest who is known as the “father” of Mexico’s independence movement. Almost all concern the “Cry of Dolores,” known more simply as the Grito, his famed 1810 call for independence from Spain.
This weekend the novillera season for up-and-coming toreros starts at Guadalajara’s Plaza de Toros Nuevo Progreso.
“How can you defend bullfighting?” a reader asks.
With nothing like this year’s deluge in the heavens, the late rains of early September 20 years ago were a surprise to local farmers, generally a welcome one.
Many U.S. citizens who have lived in Mexico for an extended time have a repellent response regarding all things Donald Trump.
This year the rainy season has made up for past years. Big storms have sent water rushing through mountain-side milpas.
