The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Giving a new meaning to “putting the cart before the horse,” Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro and his minions officially unveiled the calandrias electricas that will eventually replace the traditional equine-drawn model seen filling the city’s center’s paved circuitry with the sound of bells and hoof-clops — and the smell of horse hair.
Two armed men Thursday robbed a bank customer of 275,000 pesos he had moments earlier withdrawn from the Banorte branch on Avenida Pablo Neruda, at Terranova and Alberta.
The assailants fired a shot into the air before threatening their victim and relieving him of his cash. They fled on a motorcycle.
Feeling a bit of the excitement promised by the name – “¡A volar!” (Let’s fly!) – of the new bird exhibit at Guadalajara’s Museo de Paleontología (Museum of Paleontology),
Juan Pedro Franco, a 32-year-old from Aguascalientes recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most obese person in the world, underwent weight-loss surgery at a Guadalajara clinic earlier this year.
Guadalajara was graced by the presence of a Nobel Prize winner last Tuesday, a guest speaker for the Forum on Climate Change in the Palacio Municipal.
Guadalajara city hall is moving forward with a ban on equine participation in the decades-old calandria (horse-drawn carriage) tradition in the city center, despite growing concerns at how the changeover is being managed.
Guadalajara’s most popular zone for after-dark fun also has the dubious distinction of being one of the favored haunts of local villains.
