The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A protest held Thursday afternoon to denounce the alleged murder of Giovanni Lopez by Ixtlahuacan police officers in early May turned violent, ending in acts of vandalism and confrontations between demonstrators and anti-riot police.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our May editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
1970
Anti-marijuana drive gets intense
A proposal currently under discussion in the Health Commission of the Jalisco State Congress seeks to impose jail terms on people who flout the state’s no-smoking laws.
A confrontation between members of two drug cartels at Guadalajara’s Puente Grande penitentiary left eight inmates dead May 22.
A 80-year-old woman in Tlaquepaque reportedly bled to death after being bitten several times on the leg by her pet pitbull, named Benji.
The Guadalajara Pride March will go online on Saturday, June 6, 2 p.m. Organizers say the virtual march will end with a lively musical party, featuring local, national and international artists, including the Ballet Folclorico Diversidad Jalisciense and Grupo Tercero A.
Mariachi musicians diligently space themselves at a safe distance in Guadalajara’s Plaza de los Mariachis as they wait for the unlikely possibility someone will hire them to play a tune or two.
Water cascades down from a helicopter trying to douse the flames of a major fire that broke out in the Cerro El Tepopote, a wooded hillside on the western outskirts of Guadalajara, Thursday, May 21.
Merchants and workers on Calle Obregón in downtown Guadalajara this week expressed their concern about the strategy taken by the state government to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
