The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The centrist Movimiento Cuidadano (MC) has only been in existence since 1999, but the relatively youthful party emerged as the clear victor in Sunday’s midterm elections that saw voters in Jalisco choose representatives for a slew of municipal, state and federal positions.
GDL hotels at30 percent capacity
Guadalajara’s hotel sector is making a slow but steady recovery from the Covid pandemic, says Juan Carlos Mondragón, president of the Jalisco Hotel Association.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our May editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
1971
Two bulls for a very brave quinceañera
The annual Marcha del Orgullo LGBT+ will take place on the streets of Guadalajara on Saturday, June 12, starting out from the Minerva traffic circle at 2 p.m.
While competing in the Monaco Grand Prix last week, Tapatio Formula One racing driver Sergio Perez revealed that one of his bodyguards had been shot and injured during an attempted car jacking in Guadalajara.
Second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be administered to residents of Zapopan over 60 years old as of Monday, June 7.
Guadalajara can expect delivery shortly of the buses to be used on the ambitious Mi Macro Periférico BRT line currently under construction on the central lanes of the city beltway, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week.
Expat voters
Fewer expat Jaliscienses will be voting in this election, with only 5,534 citizens of Jalisco who reside outside the country – mainly in the United States – having registered to vote compared with 16,507 in the 2018 presidential election (although only 8,500 actually voted).
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez last week inaugurated 13 designated “safe taxi collection points,” part of a new state government strategy to address security concerns for female passengers.