The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
1967
Christmas charity
Guadalajara’s winter trailer colony – people from the city’s four trailer parks – combined their resources this week to put on a party for the 400 children of the Hospicio Cabañas orphanage.
Traffic backed up for several miles while firefighters took 16 hours to remove a propane gas truck that overturned this week in the tunnel at the busy Avenida Lopez Mateos/Periférico Sur junction.
Guadalajara’s Jewish community last weekend marked Hanukkah with the Luces por la Paz (Lights for Peace) festival, held in the Capilla Tolsa of the Instituto Cultural Cabañas.
Last week, Guadalajara musician and artist Jose Fors revealed his new sculpture during a nighttime ceremony illuminated dramatically by Kleig lights and camera flashes.
A total of 99 flights were affected in some way Monday morning when thick mist enveloped the Guadalajara International Airport from around 6 a.m.
A cause célèbre that has captured the attention of the Jalisco public is an incident of what is being called bullying against a 13-year-old Guadalajara boy named Wualberto, nicknamed Walas, who has been in a coma for several days after suffering blows to the head at the hands of one or more classmates.
Another piece in Guadalajara city hall’s polemic public sculpture project was unveiled this week in the Parque San Jacinto on Avenida Javier Mina in the eastern “Libertad” sector of the metropolitan area.
Discount Mexican airline Viva Aerobus launched daily direct flights between Guadalajara and Los Angeles, California, December 16.
More than three dozen women from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, mothers whose children disappeared after leaving their troubled homelands to find a better life, stopped in Guadalajara earlier this week as part of a 22-statewide campaign to raise awareness for their plight and perhaps even effect a resolution as to the vital status and location of their missing kin.
