The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
While advancement on the Ajijic highway makeover chugs along at a snail’s pace, dimming prospects for completion by the projected November 20 finish date, the Chapala government is forging ahead on a variety of other public works programs elsewhere in the municipality.
When news of the September 19 earthquake reached lakeside, the point men for Chapala Sunrise Rotary’s relief effort, President-Elect Hector España and Past-President Walter Thornton, came up with a game plan.
This year’s Capriotada festival was a big hit with locals and out-of-town visitors. More than ten people served up their version of Mexico’s sweet and savory Lenten bread pudding.
Citizens have stepped up to the plate and responded en masse to Tuesday’s deadly earthquake by flocking to donation centers (centros de acopio) with medicines, food, water, blankets and other basic supplies.
Jazz Fest
Jazz musicians from Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica and France are listed in the line-up for Chapala’s International Jazz Festival, Friday, March 17 through Sunday, March 19 at the open-air stage located on the eastern leg of the city’s waterfront Malecón.
Guadalajara’s Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport, one of Mexico’s most important transportation nuclei, is acquiring more and more the aspect of a wildebeest expiring on the African savannah, yanked every which way by animals of varying size and strength.
Looking for a way to get rid of broken and obsolete electronic gear and keep hazardous materials from contaminating landfills?
There’s a typewriter repair shop on Calle Libertad one block north of Plaza Nueve Esquinas, a stone’s throw south-west of Guadalajara’s historic center.
Zapotlanejo is showing off what municipal fathers claim is the “world’s tallest catrina” that rises a towering 20 meters into the sky.
