The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
All the indications suggest that Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, will open its first Mexican store in Guadalajara early next year.
Overpriced toll road
Lowering the excessive costs of using the Guadalajara macrolibramiento (outer city ring road) will be high among the topics due to be discussed by the National Auto Transportation and Cargo Chamber with president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s transition team in coming days.
The Via RecreActiva, the program in which 50 miles of metro-area avenues and trees are closed to traffic on Sundays to prioritize activities such as cycling, walking, jogging and skating, is to be extended another 7.7 kilometers to the south of the city.
“As far as we know, we’re the first in the world to offer this type of service – done through social media and giving our users financial incentives,” says Gilgamesh Angeles, a partner in a new Guadalajara business, RecyBank, that picks up a range of refuse at local homes, schools and businesses and, as the name implies, pays participants cash, products or services once they recycle a ton.
Getting word of Nohm-Cha, a new Taiwanese tea house near the U.S. Consulate, intrigued me. So-called bubble tea and tapioca tea have reared their heads around Guadalajara.
No doubt Guadalajara will soon be claiming a new Guinness record for the most Guinness records set by a single city.
Gunman opened fire outside a shopping mall in Guadalajara’s Providencia neighborhood Wednesday evening, killing a Canadian man and injuring three others, Jalisco’s Attorney General informed local media Thursday.
Elizabeth de la Rosa, who suffered burns on 90 percent of her body in a bus fire set by a drug cartel in Guadalajara last May, died Monday of multiple organ failure.
There is no definitive scientific evidence that children who play with toy guns will develop into more aggressive adults than those who don’t.
