The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Hay Festival of literature and arts has cancelled its event in Veracruz in protest against the failure to protect freedom of expression in the state. Organizers of the event said that 800 writers around the world had contacted them asking for the cancellation, following a spate of attacks on journalists. In January, Moises Sanchez became the 15th journalist to be killed or disappeared in Veracruz since 2010.
Aeromexico will launch direct flights from Mexico City to Toronto and Boston, as of May and June respectively, the airline’s director general Andres Conesa revealed in the February edition of its in-flight magazine Aire.
The haunting imagery of “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” has carried the ballad from the pen of Woody Guthrie to the stadium concerts of Bruce Springsteen.
Huge United Kingdom-based online take-out ordering service Just Eat has acquired Mexico’s SinDelantal.Mx for a reported 20 million dollars.
President Enrique Peña Nieto landed in Guadalajara Monday to lead the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding the Mexican Air Force, and also to open new installations at the Military Air College in Zapopan.
Homages to the Mexican flag will be paid across the length and breadth of the nation on Tuesday, February 24 – Dia de la Bandera. Ceremonies in the Plaza de la LIberacion in downtown Guadalajara start at 8 a.m., featuring students selected by their schools for their high academic grades.
There’s a very unusual and talented addition to the Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival this year. Rosemarie Umetsu, the “fashion designer to classical performers” will be presenting and demonstrating her unique couture at the Piano for Four Hands Concert and Fashion Show on Friday, February 20.
Jalisco authorities have released another high-profile criminal on a legal technicality. Sandra Avila Beltran, better known as the “Queen of the Pacific,” has been set free after a judge ruled that she had already served time for the five-year sentence that was keeping her behind bars.
Forever in the shadow of behemoth Wal-Mart, Mexican retailer Soriana is flexing its muscles, announcing its intention to purchase 160 Comercial Mexicana stores for a reported 39 billion pesos (US$2.6 billion).
