The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As reported in the March 12 edition of this newspaper, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised that gasoline prices would not increase.
Around 300 firefighters and emergency personnel this week battled the first major fire of the dry season to strike the Primavera Forest, the 305-square-kilometer protected area surrounding the western perimeter of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
Almost 140 archaeological zones—two of them in Jalisco—under the purview of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will welcome celebrants for the 2022 Spring equinox.
After a two-year delay due to the pandemic, National Geographic has opened an immersive family recreation center in Zapopan’s Landmark Mall, next to Plaza Andares.
Local Irish dancers show off their prowess with some nifty synchronized jigs in front of the appropriately illuminated Rotunda of Illustrious Jaliscienses on March 15.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our March editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
1972
A lack of hard news
Sometimes it seems the REPORTER of old had no serious news in it. Here are some of the top headlines from March, 4, 1972:Indonesian Cultural Week slated.
A rear-end collision between a tractor trailer and a cargo truck loaded with bricks early Tuesday, March 8, along the Guadalajara-Chapala highway about five kilometers past the airport, caused a massive traffic jam that lasted into the afternoon.
• Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (program 5, works by Haydn, Chamizo, Kodály), Teatro Degollado, Thursday, March 24, 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 27, 12:30 p.m.
Demanding and end to femicides, domestic violence, hate crimes, forced disappearances and sexual harassment, as many as 20,000 women marched on Guadalajara’s streets Tuesday, March 8 (International Women’s Day).
