The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Since June 2013, 38 foreigners – most of them middle-aged males from the United States – convicted in their home countries of sexual crimes against minors have been refused entry into Mexico by immigration staff working at the Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta airports.
Jalisco-Quebec accord
Jalisco and the Canadian province of Quebec have signed a student mobility agreement that will help young adults achieve their professional and personal development goals in an international context.
More than 15,000 celebrants are expected to visit the archaeological ruins at Guachimontones, outside Teuchitlan, Jalisco between March 20 and 23. Spring rituals are held at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. daily, with concerts and dance shows at 8 p.m.
Less than 20 percent of the 3,000 patients awaiting a kidney transplant in Jalisco will undergo the procedure in the next 12 months. Many of those needing transplants are destined to die because of the shortage of kidneys.
U.S. couple hit by Vallarta bus
A couple in their 80s from Arizona are recovering at a hospital in Puerto Vallarta after being run over by a bus there on Wednesday.
Authorities have no proof that organized criminals in Jalisco are involved in the kidnapping of children to harvest their organs, Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera said this week.
Wild outfits, costumes and humorous themes were the operating rules for elaborately decorated floats in Ajijic’s Carnaval parade.
Hampered by strong winds, some 150 firefighters this week successfully battled two fires in the Cerro del Tepopote, an extension of the Parque Metropolitano in Zapopan.
Forensic scientists have yet to identify any of the 19 corpses found recently by state police in a wooded area outside Tlajomulco.
