The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Experts are predicting a scorching dry season, which intensifies during March and April and reaches its peak during May and early June.
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.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our February editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
The American School in Guadalajara is inviting artists, art lovers, the school community and the public in general to its annual Art Fest on Saturday, March 7.
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.
The U.S. consulate general in Guadalajara issued a pre-emptive warning of possible retaliation and public disturbance in the metropolitan area following the February 20 extradition of Ruben Oseguera-Gonzalez, alias “El Menchito,” who is the son of Nemesio “Mencho” Oseguera-Cervantes, the alleged leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).