The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Authorities reported no injures or fatalities from a fire that spread through a section of Guadalajara’s labyrinthine San Juan de Dios (Libertad) market in the early hours of Thursday, March 31.
A concert in remembrance of all those who died from Covid-19 is scheduled Friday, April 8, at the Sagrado Metropolitano de Guadalajara, Morelos 348, in the Guadalajara city center.
The federal government will pony up nine billion pesos ($US454 million) towards funding for Guadalajara’s fourth Tren Ligero (light train) line, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro announced Wednesday, after meeting with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador a day earlier.
Thirty-five people were injured, five of them reported in serious condition, after a metro area bus back-ended a truck on the Guadalajara-Chapala highway near the El Tapatio hotel complex.
A historic bridge built between 1790 and 1800 that became buried under Guadalajara’s urban sprawl has been carefully restored over the past five years, and last week opened to the public as an underground museum.
The first permanent clothing recycling containers in Guadalajara have been installed at both entrances to the Parque Colomos.
Defense lawyers for Naasón Joaquín García, the spiritual leader of the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo evangelical church who faces charges of human trafficking, rape and possession of child pornography, have filed a 211-page motion claiming that “the accusations that have been sustained by the (California) Prosecutor’s Office are based on fabricated, edited, manipulated and altered evidence.”
In a bid to curb the profusion of motorcycle-riding bandits, Guadalajara City Councilman Luis Cisneros Quirarte has presented an initiative that would ban motorcycles up to 500cc with two passengers from the Guadalajara city center and other popular areas of the city.
Probe into DST
A week before Mexico switches to Daylight Saving Time, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has ordered a thorough investigation into the benefits of advancing clocks during the winter months.
