The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A hundred years after his death, Porfirio Diaz is remembered not only as Mexico’s longest ruling president, but also as the person credited with putting Chapala on the map as a tourist destination.
The “Black Widow” of Chapala
With a string of suspected poisonings, a strangling and an empty coffin, the case of the “Black Widow” is a narrative Raymond Chandler would have been proud of. Yet Maria Socorro Rodriguez, the femme fatale of the story, was no fiction. A Mexican woman who married a string of wealthy U.S.-born retirees, Maria is suspected of bringing them all to an early grave.
The U.S. Episcopal Church’s approval of gay and lesbian marriage, passed at its General Convention in Salt Lake City July 1 following on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision favoring gender-blind marriage just a few days earlier, appears not to have had an earthshaking effect — either positive or negative — on its sister province to the south, the Anglican Church of Mexico, despite close social and historical ties between the two churches.
1965
Cast readies musical review
“Sing for your Summer — 1965,” annual musical review produced by Tapa-Teatro of Guadalajara (in English) to benefit the Dr. Banda free clinic in Colonia Seattle was in fine form on opening night at the Teatro Experimantal in the Parque Agua Azul. The show casts nearly all American actors and singers and is built around Broadway musical hits.
“Congratulations on your revolution,” said our old, limping friend Don Salvador Gomez.
“Revolution?”
“You don’t know?” he asked arching his heavy white eyebrows. “Don’t you have a birthday coming up?”
“We’ve had our birthday. Two a year would kill us at our age.”
Don Salvador looked pained. “Your FOURTH OF JULY!” he said, almost spelling it out for us.
“Oh, of course. Why didn’t you say so.”
Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, a 25-year-old New Yorker with a wispy red beard and a contagious smile, was visiting Mexico for a yoga retreat.
In this second in a monthly series of LOOKING BACK, the Reporter is publishing some headlines taken from its June editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
