The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Despite cuts in federal funding and the state culture budget for 2017, the Jalisco government has pledged almost $US1.5 million for the rights to hold an international rock festival in the city in October next year.
Stéphane Charbonneau’s appointment as the new consul and senior trade commissioner at the Canadian Consulate in Guadalajara is his seventh foreign posting of a 29-year diplomatic career.
A spate of road works started last week in the Guadalajara metropolitan area quickly frayed the nerves of motorists.
For the second year in a row, Guadalajara’s annual parade observing the November 1910 start of the Mexican Revolution took place along Avenida Chapultepec instead of in the historic center, due to ongoing work on the third Tren Ligero (subway) line.
Just how did the president of Jalisco’s Supreme Court – who last week offered his resignation – end up in his job after serving a prison term for homicide three decades earlier?
It’s a question most ordinary citizens are struggling to fathom.
On Sunday, November 20, protestors along the Via RecreActiva bicycle route in Guadalajara denounced U.S. President-elect Donald Trump with startling Ku Klux Klan hoods, swastikas and banners.
The creativity of Mexico’s drug smugglers continues to transcend all barriers.
Drivers are being warned to expect streets in the vicinity of metro-area plazas (malls) to be jammed with traffic over the Buen Fin (and holiday) weekend, Friday, November 18 to Monday, November 21.
Some 2,000 Guadalajara businesses will be offering discounts over the four-day period. Saturday and Sunday afternoons are expected to be especially busy.
To avoid parking problems, arrive early at popular malls such as Galerias, Gran Plaza, Andares, Plaza del Sol and Plaza Patria.
Scammers were able to dupe a domestic worker in Zapopan’s ritzy Puerto del Hierro subdivision into handing over her employer’s jewelry, watches and cash.
