The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara (in addition to all U.S. diplomatic missions in Mexico) suspended routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa services as of March 18.
Hotels and restaurants in Guadalajara are embracing directives from the state government’s health and travel authorities, who are stepping up to the new coronavirus challenge.
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.
The projected spike in Covid-19 cases began to be felt in Jalisco Thursday, as Health Secretary Fernando Peterson confirmed that 27 people have tested positive for the disease.
Experts are predicting a scorching dry season, which intensifies during March and April and reaches its peak during May and early June.
Saying that “women want to tell us something,” University of Guadalajara (UdG) Rector Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí announced that the profuse graffiti defacing the school’s flagship building from Sunday’s large demonstration will not be immediately cleaned up.
VINTAGE MARKET
The large antique market (Trocadero) held each Sunday on Avenida Mexico (at Chapultepec) always draws large crowds.
Federal authorities have frozen several Mexican bank accounts pertaining to the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo church.
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.
