The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Next weekend sees the start of the third annual Sucede Festival, a six-week blitzkrieg of 172 free cultural events presented by 48 groups and companies from both Mexico and abroad in 42 venues in the Guadalajara municipal area.
At 9:38 on a busy Monday morning in September, firefighters arrived at a bean and grain storehouse in Guadalajara’s 130-year-old, sprawling Mercado de Abastos.
A new police motorcycle unit has been established in Guadalajara to help protect the public against the epidemic of asaltos conejeros, or assaults on bank customers who have just withdrawn funds from branches.
Not long after one iconic bookstore closed in Guadalajara, another has opened in its place.
In Guadalajara, the memory of the famous Italian navigator is dismissed without sympathy, as all eyes turn to a venerated 400-year-old religious statue, whose mere presence on the streets will draw some one million spectators.
Considered by many to be the best event of its kind in Mexico, the Jalisco Expo Ganadera (Livestock Fair) is being held in Tlaquepaque from Friday, October 12, through Sunday, November 4.
For many people, the drama surrounding the nomination of conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has more to do with the continuity of the landmark Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling than an alleged case of sexual abuse 35 years ago. However, in Mexico, and Jalisco especially, the struggle for the legalization of abortion still has a long way to run.
Students at the public Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG) cannot be accused of being apathetic.
With a population of almost five million people, the Guadalajara metropolitan area is Mexico’s second largest metropolis.
