The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Last year, the sale of medical marihuana was approved by Mexico’s federal government. However, there remains a thicket of red tape to be untangled before the law is actually enacted.
Two things are happening in the world of Guadalajara hospitality this spring.
At the recent Guadalajara International Film Festival, legendary Spanish director Carlos Saura, 86, was the subject of a career retrospective at the University of Guadalajara’s Catedra Julio Cortazar, where he participated in a dialogue with producer Antonio Saura, his son, and received the Mayahuel International award.
Expo Guadalajara, that most promiscuous of event spaces, is set to host yet another outsize happening, the gargantuan Mexican tech convention known as Talent Land, Tuesday, April 2 to Friday, April 6.
In a Youtube video, a young man named Hector Martinez sits cross-legged in the middle of a white net hammock, naked except for a natty blue-black scarf tied around his neck.
Water shortages in many zones of the Guadalajara metropolitan area are being put down to increased demand due to the excessively high temperatures, in addition to problems affecting supply via the old Atequiza canal that pumps thousands of gallons of H20 from Lake Chapala to the city every day.
A citizenry still reeling from two months of bloody internecine fighting between powerful cartels has been dealt another crushing blow their morale: the abduction in Tonala of three film students, scooped up off the streets after shooting a project for the Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales (CAAV).
