The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Family members and friends of Wendy Sánchez Muñoz, the 32-year-old artist from San Francisco (San Pancho), Nayarit, who disappeared while driving to Guadalajara on January 9, erect a floral monument to their missing loved one at the Glorieta de Las y Los Desaparecidos (Niños Heroes) last weekend.
The Jalisco state government has earmarked 100 million pesos to start work on the first stage of the extension to Guadalajara’s Colomos Park, once referred to as Colomos III, but from now on to be known as the Bosque Pedagógico del Agua.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our January editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
The Archdiocese of Guadalajara has announced that Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, the former archbishop of Guadalajara, has undergone successful surgery and been fitted with a pacemaker.
Oxígeno en Ruedas (Oxygen on Wheels) is a new service that has emerged in the Guadalajara metropolitan area to help families in poorer neighborhoods who are struggling to find supplies of O2 amid the current shortage brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Today’s headlines may focus mostly on the coronavirus epidemic but that doesn’t mean all is quiet and well on Guadalajara’s pubic security front.
Inspectors in Guadalajara and Zapopan – the two largest municipalities of the metropolitan area, accounting for more than two-thirds of its population – worked overtime during the first period of the year’s Covid-19 restrictions (botón de emergencia) between January 16 and 31.
Grupo Aeroporturio del Pacifico (GAP), the operators of the Guadalajara International Airport and 13 others in western Mexico, reacted swiftly to the recent travel requirements introduced for everyone flying to the United States and Canada.
After assessing no significant reduction in Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths in the state over the past two weeks, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has extended until February 12 the current restrictions on some businesses, gatherings in public spaces, and social and cultural activities.
