The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Eleven pilgrims returning from a visit to view a religious icon in the Jalisco town of San Juan de Lagos died in an automobile accident near Jalostotitlán Tuesday.
Mexico’s best known arts festival, now ramping up for its October 2 kickoff, offers special allure to Jalisco audiences this year, in addition to its staggering lineup of international artists, such as the American and Emerson String Quartets, Spain’s National Dance Company and National Orchestra, France’s Ars Nova Instrumental Ensemble, the Peking Opera, Holland’s National Ballet, Mali’s Debademba, and Taiwan’s “A Moving Sound”— some 3,500 artists in total.
It’s hard to keep Pedro Kumamoto, Jalisco’s young independent legislator, out of the news for long.
Two marches in Guadalajara this weekend highlight the passions aroused by the initiative presented to Congress by President Enrique Peña Nieto to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide.
Following on from last year’s dramatic umbrella montage, around 50 large pigs have taken up residence in the center of Tlaquepaque.
Father Miguel Hidalgo’s emotional 1810 “Grito” exhorting Mexicans to take up arms against their Spanish masters will be reenacted in the main plazas of cities, towns and villages the length and breadth of Mexico, at 11 p.m. on Thursday, September 15.
For the first time in its history, the Mexican Episcopal Conference (Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano), the organization of bishops that represents the official leadership body of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, has called on the faithful to participate in a nationwide protest.
The first stage of the Macrolibramiento (outer city ring road) hasn’t exactly been a hit with motorists, according to a report in Spanish-language daily Mural.
The fledgling Citizen’s Movement (MC) party that scored significant successes in last year’s mid-term elections in Jalisco – led by poster boy Enrique Alfaro, the mayor of Guadalajara – may be facing the biggest political crisis of its existence following the arrest of the presumed financial operator of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), Sergio Kurt Schmidt Sandoval.
