The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Sunday, December 12, Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa, 24, won the 37th Guadalajara marathon in a record time of 2:12:28. Kenyans Rhonzas Kilimo and Kiplimo Mitei finished second and third.
AM39 touched down at the Guadalajara Airport before dawn Thursday, December 16, making history as the first ever direct commercial flight to this city from a European destination.
Guadalajara City Hall is to install four tourist booths, and also grant concessions for 25 small puestos, at various points along the 22-block Paseo Alcalde pedestrian walkway in the city center, Mayor Pablo Lemus announced Thursday.
Most traditional December 12 festivities honoring La Virgen de Guadalupe are being suspended at lakeside for the second consecutive year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As many as 3,000 runners will pound the streets of Guadalajara as the 37th annual marathon unfolds in the early hours of Sunday, December 12.
Acclaimed Chilean novelist Diamela Eltit was the recipient of the FIL Prize for Literature at the opening ceremony of the International Book Fair (FIL).
In an unpublicized display of good will and even feminist convictions, a group representing Jalisco, including Joanna Santillan, the wife of Governor Enrique Alfaro, served tamales and atole, while the 28-member Jalisco State Choir sang a Christmas program, to hundreds of incarcerated women.
This year’s La Catrina Award for cartoonists went to a woman for only the second time.
Ken Salazar, the recently appointed U.S. ambassador to Mexico, made his first visit to Guadalajara last week, taking in a busy schedule that included participating in a forum on bilateral relations at the International Book Fair (FIL) and reviewing ongoing work at the site of the new U.S. consulate building in the city.
