The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Members of the Knights Templar drug gang firebombed a Sabritas delivery truck in Michoacan last Thursday night, targeting the potato-chip company for the second time in six days.
Hurricane Bud turned out to be more of a damp squib, leaving not a trace of devastation in its wake after it struck Jalisco late last week.
State police have captured a leader of the Milenio Cartel linked to the massacre of 18 people whose dismembered bodies were dumped in two SUVs just off the Chapala highway last Wednesday.
To once again commemorate the millions of people who have passed away since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, the 29th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will be marked in Guadalajara on Sunday, May 20, with a procession from the Templo Expiatorio (Avenidas Enrique Diaz de Leon and Lopez Cotilla) to the Plaza Fundadores (behind the Teatro Degollado), starting at 7 p.m.
In a bold bid for publicity, a local representative of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has ditched her clothes while campaigning for a seat in Mexico’s lower house (Camara de Diputados).
To celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) on Thursday, May 17, Guadalajara’s LGBT community paid tribute to local homosexual icons at the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres in the historic city center, next to the Cathedral.
The Jalisco Cruz Roja held a modest celebration in Guadalajara’s Parque Morelos to mark World Red Cross Day on May 8, but the organization remains beset by a lack of funds.
Jalisco is on the verge of becoming the seventh Mexican state to treat femicide as a distinct crime and a more serious form of murder.
French expatriates around the world turned out in large numbers last weekend as the country elected its first Socialist Party president since Francois Mitterrand in the 1980s.
