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Indigenous Festival
Friday, February 21 is International Mother Language Day, a worldwide annual observance to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and promote multilingualism.
In a pilot program, electronic ticketing machines have been distributed to Jalisco traffic cops to test out ways of streamlining the process of issuing infractions. The devices allow officers to enter details of the infraction, including photographs, and print out folios (tickets) that can be paid at a convenience store or bank of one’s choice. (As with the hand-written tickets, 50-percent discounts are available for swift payment.) The electronic tickets also have a QR code, permitting online access to details of the infraction, in addition to payment of the fine via a smartphone or other device. The first stage of the project will be limited to the Guadalajara city center.
On Tuesday, February 11, the Guadalajara walking tour group will receive an English-language guided tour of two timely and enthralling exhibits at the Museo de las Artes (Musa): Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros” and “Arte Chicano de Los Angeles: Building Bridges in an Era of Walls.”
Guadalajara’s Midtown Mall – located on Avenida Lopez Mateos in Colonia Providencia, across from the American School – is well into its second year but is quickly trying to strip the Andares Mall of its mantle as the most dynamic of Guadalajara’s upscale commercial centers.
Guadalajara is gearing up to celebrate its 478th birthday, a date which always has a romantic attachment, since it falls on February 14, Valentine’s Day or Dia del Amor y la Amistad.
Although the craft beer market in Mexico has exploded in recent years with dozens of micro-breweries coming out with interesting new products, as with most things in the world of business, the big players tend to come out on top in the end.
It took four tries just to find a place to build Guadalajara. Pedro Beltran Nuño de Guzman, a Spanish lawyer and Caribbean slave trader out of favor with Spain, decided that the best way to redeem himself was to conquer new lands for the Spanish crown and so he headed northwest.
Jalisco is on the verge of debuting a new political party, spearheaded by Pedro Kumamoto, the state’s first independent legislator.
Group Aeroportuario del Pacifico (GAP), the operators of the Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta international airports, this week announced a massive redevelopment program at both facilities, with investment to total a whopping 18 billion pesos ($US335 million).
