The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
No matter how one may have tried, the situation has become too loathsome and dangerous – and, for a U.S. citizen, too ridiculous and fearsome – to ignore. And for Mexico, this week’s fresh assessment of Donald Trump and a nuclear bomb has made the consideration of a Trump “wall” seem relatively innocent.
