The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
According to the soothsayers at the University of Guadalajara Meteorology Institute (IAM), citizens who have only just managed to recover from the city’s baking heat wave will very shortly be hit by a wall of water as the rainy season kicks into gear.
Rain, thunder and plenty of man-made commotion are hallmarks of the traditional festivities held from June 5 through 13 in San Antonio Tlayacapan in tribute to the town’s religious patron, Saint Anthony of Padua.
Should we expect state-federal relations to plummet if leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins the presidency and former Guadalajara mayor Enrique Alfaro becomes the next governor of Jalisco on July 1 – as the polls increasingly suggest?
¨Please, bring fans¨ cried students at the Secundaria Tecnica 172 in the Real del Valle neighborhood of Tlajomulco.
Monday’s disturbing violence, involving a brazen attempt on the life of former Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera and the subsequent torching of several buses (see story page one), has rattled nerves and rekindled outrage still flickering from the disappearances of three film students in March.
Officers from the Mexican Navy have arrested the wife of one of Mexico’s most wanted drug capos in an operation carried out in an upmarket suburb of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
The corpses of three murder victims were discovered early Tuesday, May 15 at two sites located within the boundaries of Jocotepec.
According to state governor Aristoteles Sandoval, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has for some time been contracting foreign mercenaries, experts in different types of warfare.
A mere half of all 152 companies registered with the Tequila Regulatory Council (CRT) – the body which governs the production and sale of Jalisco’s most well-known export – are actually producing tequila on a regular basis, while the remaining half are only sporadically doing so.
