The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
On January 7, the Puerto Vallarta Navy League and the Casa Magna Marriott Hotel delivered more than 5,000 toys to children in Puerto Vallarta and areas of Nayarit in celebration of Three Kings Day.
A restaurant on Puerto Vallarta’s Playa de los Muertos that had opened for business on December 17 burned to the ground on January 7.
The Puerto Vallarta police force has created a special department to focus on domestic violence.
Lynne Benoit, the Canadian Consular Agent in the Puerto Vallarta/Riviera Nayarit area for the past 20 years, has stepped down from her position as of January 1.
Twenty-seven hotels and restaurants are participating in Puerto Vallarta’s 19th International Gourmet Festival, which runs from November 14 to 23.
Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit are being jointly marketed under a 36-million-dollar campaign to promote Mexico’s tourist industry in the United States and Canada.
The 58th International Fishing Tournament of Puerto Vallarta takes place from November 13 to 16. There are major prizes up for grabs, including 180,000 pesos for whoever snags the biggest sailfish, another 150,000 pesos in the marlin category, 120,000 pesos for the biggest tuna and 80,000 pesos for the biggest mahi mahi.
The Centro Universitario de la Costa (CUC) this month celebrates 50 years since the filming of “The Night of the Iguana,” the movie that put the Pacific coast resort on the tourist map.
Two men from Zapopan were shot dead and another was left seriously injured after their car came under fire in downtown Puerto Vallarta last month.
