The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A shiny and newly restored Minerva statue was unveiled to the public May 21 as fans of the Guadalajara Chivas celebrated their team’s passage to the final of the Liga Mx soccer championship.
On May 25, 1997, the original “Star Wars” movie, directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, hit movie theater screens.
Drivers caught on camera exceeding the speed limit in Guadalajara will be exempt from fines for a while longer, the Jalisco Transportation Department (Semov) announced this week.
Nine members of an extended family – four adults and five children – perished in a fire that broke out in a two-story house in Guadalajara’s Colonia Lomas de Independencia neighborhood last weekend.
Jalisco’s favorite homegrown fruit, the cactus-borne pitaya, began invading fruit stands across the state last month.
Guadalajara city councilors from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) are demanding that citizens vote to decide the fate of the traditional horse-drawn carriages (calandrias) in the city center.
Cyclists charge over the Matute Remus suspension bridge, one of Guadalajara’s most conspicuous modern landmarks, during the Carrera Ciclista Gran Giro GDL, Sunday, May 7. The 140-kilometer bike race, which welcomes people of all ages and skill levels, started and ended at the Glorieta Minerva statue, an older but no less prominent Guadalajara landmark.
Two employees of the Jalisco Transportation Department (Secretaria de Movilidad) died after being struck by a car driven by an Uber driver, allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
The U.S. State Department has purchased a plot of land in Guadalajara’s Colonia Monraz upon which a new U.S. Consulate General is expected to be built.
