The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.”
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.
A tragic – but most likely avoidable – accident occurred Friday, June 15 when a metro-area bus drove into a roadside canal in Tlaquepaque, overturning and killing seven passengers.
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.
By Elaine Halleck
A week before their scheduled annual meeting June 23, board members in a newly formed Democratic group in Guadalajara reflected on their achievements and setbacks in the past year.
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.
Violence, most likely cartel-related, continues to convulse Guadalajara.
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.
Following over three weeks of hospitalization here in Guadalajara, a woman severely burned in a bus fire set by cartel members in the wake of the attempted assassination of a former Jalisco attorney general is finally undergoing surgery in the hospital of the University of Texas in Galveston, Texas.
