The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
With temperatures continuing on the rise through the hottest weeks of the year, a string of festivities and special events will break everyday routines and help counteract heat-induced lethargy.
More than 60,000 tech enthusiasts saw over 1,700 hours of content at Expo Guadalajara’s second Talent Land from April 22 to 26.
Airport work begins
Work on the controversial new Mexico City Airport kicked off April 29. The Santa Lucia air base will be transformed into the capital’s second airport at a cost of around $US4 billion.
The murder of a young woman by her enraged husband outside the official residence of the Jalisco governor, the Casa Jalisco, has triggered a wave of protest over the high incidence of domestic violence and femicides (murders of women) in the state.
Despite the opposition of local residents and environmentalists, work has started on a major new cultural and commercial complex on the city’s northern beltway (periferico).
An influential Mexican opinion leader addressed the systematic challenges in fortifying democratic institutions in the United States at the Democrats Abroad Mexico Annual General Meeting held two weeks ago in San Miguel de Allende.
On Maundy Thursday (April 18), thousands of Catholics will go to church seven times for the “Visit to the Seven Churches,” a tradition dating back to medieval Spain that commemorates Christ’s departure from the Last Supper and his walk through the Garden of Gethsemane.
