The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The indigenous community of Mezcala has triumphed in a two-decade struggle to recuperate 20 hectares of ancestral lands that were usurped by a Guadalajara entrepreneur.
An artist in Zapotlanejo puts the finishing touches on a giant calavera (skull), one of 20 that will be exhibited around the Jalisco municipality as part of the town’s scaled-back annual Day of the Dead Festival, which this year will be dedicated to victims of Covid-19.
With Day of the Dead activities gearing up amid falling Covid cases, Guadalajara’s oldest and most picturesque cemetery, the Panteón de Belén, is once more admitting visitors.
The annual Guadalajara marathon will take place on Sunday, December 12, after being cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Municipal authorities in the Guadalajara metropolitan area and other parts of Jalisco will be keeping a close eye on crowds descending on graveyards to pay their respects to departed loved ones, as is the custom on the Days of the Dead, November 1 and 2.
ANIMALS SEIZED AT FLEA MARKET
Around 30 officials from various Guadalajara City Hall departments seized 30 animals being offered for sale in last Sunday’s huge Baratillo flea market, located on the eastern side of the metropolitan area.
Relatives, friends and supporters of three young persons who died in an automobile accident on the night of October 17 on Avenida Lopez Mateos Sur held a demonstration outside the state governor’s Guadalajara residence last Sunday,
Between October 2020 and September 2021, the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions (AMIS) received 62,583 reports of thefts of insured vehicles.
Four Bengal tigers cubs born July 3 at the Guadalajara Zoo recently made their first public appearance.
