The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
While competing in the Monaco Grand Prix last week, Tapatio Formula One racing driver Sergio Perez revealed that one of his bodyguards had been shot and injured during an attempted car jacking in Guadalajara.
Guadalajara can expect delivery shortly of the buses to be used on the ambitious Mi Macro Periférico BRT line currently under construction on the central lanes of the city beltway, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week.
Like vultures zeroing in on a carcass, neighbors living adjacent to the Guadalajara-Chapala highway near the city airport took advantage of an accident on Thursday in which a trailer loaded with 50 tons of beer overturned on their doorstep.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez last week inaugurated 13 designated “safe taxi collection points,” part of a new state government strategy to address security concerns for female passengers.
Jalisco’s Forensic Service (Semefo) has promised to investigate and take appropriate action after images of bodies strewn on the floors of the state morgue were released by Spanish-language daily Mural.
Fifteen days after celebrating a civil service in Punta Mita, 30-year-old Tapatio boxing sensation Saúl “Canelo” Alvarez married his partner and model Fernanda Gómez, 24, in a private ceremony held at the majestic Guadalajara Cathedral last Saturday.
Primavera nightmare
With 110 registered fires and 10,700 hectares damaged, 2021 ranks as the second worst year for the Primavera Forest in three decades.
Fresh from three limited-seating, open-air concerts within the walls of Guadalajara’s iconic and sprawling Instituto Cultural Cabañas, the Covid-stymied, 88-member Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) seems poised to reclaim its renowned, acoustically excellent home venue, Teatro Degollado, for more than just practices, online concerts and photo ops.
While in Guadalajara earlier this year to prepare for the Miss Universe contest, Andrea Meza was the victim of an assault, which occurred outside a private hospital as she waited for a valet parking attendant to return her vehicle.
