The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Federal authorities have frozen several Mexican bank accounts pertaining to the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo church.
Women took to the streets of Guadalajara in unprecedented numbers Sunday, March 8 (International Women’s Day) as part of nationwide protests against femicide, gender violence and inequality.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our February editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Experts are predicting a scorching dry season, which intensifies during March and April and reaches its peak during May and early June.
Drivers faced long traffic jams this week as work began last weekend at the intersection at the Periferico and the Carretera a Chapala – part of the Mi Macro Periférico megaproject that will eventually see the installation of a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) network along the entire central divider of the Guadalajara metro area ring road.
VINTAGE MARKET
The large antique market (Trocadero) held each Sunday on Avenida Mexico (at Chapultepec) always draws large crowds.
Drivers faced long traffic jams this week as work began last weekend at the intersection at the Periferico and the Carretera a Chapala – part of the Mi Macro Periférico megaproject that will eventually see the installation of a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) network along the entire central divider of the Guadalajara metro area ring road.
Even though pro-Catholic, conservative politicians have given it their backing, one of Guadalajara’s most senior religious figures has condemned the national “Day without Women” strike scheduled for Tuesday, March 9, because of its ties to feminist, pro-choice organizations.
Two dozen singers from the Jalisco State Choir (Coro del Estado) and accompanying musicians “disguised” as ordinary commuters staged surprise performances February 19 and 24 in wagons along two lines of Guadalajara’s Tren Ligero and in the main station at Avenidas Federalismo and Vallarta.
