The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
While the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG) likes to trumpet its achievements in the promotion of culture, of which there are many, the administrators of this public institution are not amiss to dabbling in “commercial” ventures, including real estate development.
More than 200 individuals are demanding the intervention of state authorities after a realtor with whom they had invested large sums of money committed suicide after telling his clients that he was unable to meet his financial obligations.
A military/police operation to arrest a leading figure in the Jalisco Nuevo Generation Cartel (CJNG) unleashed a wave of coordinated violent incidents in Guadalajara and municipalities in the neighboring state of Guanajuato Tuesday evening, with armed gang members torching buses, cars, gas stations and stores.
Guadalajara is following in the footsteps of many of the world’s grandest cities by introducing the “GDL City Pass,” giving visitors both free access and discounts at many of the most important tourist attractions, and cultural and sporting events.
Singers wanted
In a bid to promote the careers of budding singers, organizers of Guadalajara’s International Mariachi Festival have put out a call to find the “representative voice of the Mariachi.”
The Festival de la Cerveza (Beer Festival) will return to Guadalajara’s Parque Metropolitano in October for the 13th time, after an absence of two years due to Covid.
A exhibition titled “La Primavera, past and present” has opened at the Guadalajara Museum of Paleontology, illustrating the rich and varied geology, biology and archaeology of this Natural Protected Area bordering the western rim of the metropolitan area.
The young tiktoker known as “Fofo”, who blocked Guadalajara’s Matute Remus suspension bridge with luxury cars in order to record a video, carried out 12 hours of community service this week after he handed himself in to city authorities and issued an apology.
The driver of a car died Saturday, July 23 when fierce winds caused a large tree to fall on his vehicle at the intersection of Niños Heroes and Argentina in Colonia Moderna. Firefighters managed to extract two passengers from the vehicle safely.