The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As Mother Nature begins working her rainy season wonders, local Roman Catholics are making ready to raise prayers to Mother Mary for divine interven
tion to protect and replenish Lake Chapala.
Four Tapatio divers are among the eight-person Mexican team that has traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland to compete in the 2013 World Diving Series, which takes place April 19 to 21.
In 75 cities around Mexico, including Guadalajara, doctors came together to protest the arrest of two doctors in Oaxaca, who were detained last week after a boy in their care died following surgery for a broken elbow last November.
The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia General del Estado, FGE) revealed yesterday that three Guadalajara film students, missing since March 19, were abducted by members of a drug cartel who mistakenly believed they were in the employ of a rival group. The three young men, all in their early 20s, were tortured, murdered and their bodies dissolved in acid, the agency said.
Bill Wolff has been missing since 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4. He was last seen in Ajijic on Calle Colon driving a 1996 black Mercedes Benz, license plate: U98SARB.
The Via Crucis migrant caravan, which journeys by freight train every year through Mexico from its border with Guatemala to raise awareness of the plight of Central Americans looking for a better life in this country and/or the United States, arrived last Tuesday in Guadalajara, where they were taken in and inspected by the Region Sanitaria XII, Centro-Tlaquepaque branch of the state’s Health Ministry.
The case of three film students kidnapped on March 19 in the municipality of Tonala remains unresolved.
Sears may be falling on hard times in the United States, but one of Mexico’s biggest department store chains is forging ahead with new projects.
Whether they like it or not, the citizens of Jalisco will be subjected to an incessant barrage of political propaganda over next three months as the election season roars into top gear and candidates work overtime to influence the hearts and minds of voters.