Looking Back: A review of June news from the last 50 years
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our December editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our December editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
An exchange program – part of the Obama-era “100,000 Strong in the Americas” initiative – between universities in the Unites States and Mexico is officially underway.
Seismic stations for the detection of earthquake-related activity are being installed around the Guadalajara metro area by University of Guadalajara scientists and the city of Zapopan.
The sixth edition of “Mil Tambores Guadalajara” will shake the fertile soil of archeological site Guachimontones, Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24.
Seismic stations for the detection of earthquake-related activity are being installed around the Guadalajara metro area by University of Guadalajara scientists and the city of Zapopan.
Staff from the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara participated gleefully in the city’s recent pride parade.
Paseo Alcalde, a long pedestrian promenade currently under construction – and under which the Tren Ligero 3 subway line is likewise being built – will double, according to tourism officials, as a “gastronomic corridor” featuring the greatest hits of Jalisco cuisine.
A new “memorandum of understanding” between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Tec de Monterrey looks to “generate academic opportunities for the professionalization of the work of those who defend human rights, particularly the rights of journalists.”
In what could be seen as part of the last farewell to Guadalajara by absentee mayor – and, perhaps, future Jalisco governor – Enrique Alfaro, the sixth element of his ambitious, controversial public arts program has been installed in the city, this time atop a stretch of the prominent Jorge Matute suspension bridge, which shades Avenida Lazaro Cardenas, within spitting distance of the giant yellow Arcos del Milenio.