The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
You won’t see many chocolate eggs in stores in Mexico. Rather, the Mexican staple during Lent is the empanada, a flaky crust folded into a triangle and containing cheese, tuna, mushrooms, potatoes, strips of chilis and other non-meat fillings.
No Mexican festivity seems complete without noisy fireworks, even the most solemn of all religious celebrations, Easter.
Pedro Jimenez: A Mexico City-born-and-raised communications professional turned mescal producer/bar owner with the faraway contemplative gaze, slightly weary and bemused demeanor of a man with little to prove and even less interest in doing so.
Reports on the tragic struggles of migrants all around the world fill the international news media.
A miraculous healing inspired lakeside resident Janice Paul to work as a missionary in India, care for lepers, travel to remote villages, marry an Indian man 25 years her junior in secret – and write about it.
Plaza de Liberacion, centro historico’s largest public square, sees a lot of things: mangers featuring terrifyingly large facsimiles of biblical personalities and hooved desert pack animals, the largest number of agave jimadores ever assembled in one place, countless mariachi concerts, and more.
A 70-something Tapatio recalls Holy Week in Guadalajara: “When I was a child, there was no radio, we didn’t go to the movies.
