The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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 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.
The new Walking Club’s one-way walk on Tuesday February 4 starts at Calle Sebastian Allende 1967 at the corner of Manzano in Colonia Jardines Alcalde and ends up in the historic city center.
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.
Statues in Guadalajara are being outfitted with QRcodes that allow smartphone users to scan and see videos with information about the personality in both Spanish and English.
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).
Speed cameras in Jalisco are a cash cow for the state government but authorities are still losing millions of pesos in fines for various reasons.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our January editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
A record number of denuncias (criminal complaints) for sexual abuse in Jalisco were filed in 2019. Investigators opened 3,175 case files, compared to 2,821 in the previous year.