The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The four-year-old “Salvando Vidas” campaign by the state’s Department of Traffic (Semov), which seeks to curb drunk-driving with strict measures such as random breathalyzer stops, has turned up the heat on inebriated motorists from a simmer to a boil, just in time for the year’s most besotted season.
It’s time for another installment of the municipal soap opera known as “Alfaro vs. the Carriage Drivers,” which was for some time a once-monthly affair but has started broadcasting to increasingly exhausted observers about once a week.
The task of initiating environmentally friendly projects in cities can place a financial strain on governments, since, more often than not, they are financially inviable.
A series of independent seasonal bazaars in Guadalajara scheduled this weekend provide opportunities for local micro entrepreneurs to showcase their wares.
Glacial governmental indifference calls for desperate measures, which is what a group of calandrieros – traditional horse-drawn carriage drivers – claim to have resorted to in their fight to preserve a century-old custom and, more importantly, their livelihoods.
A series of independent seasonal bazaars in Guadalajara scheduled this weekend provide opportunities for local micro entrepreneurs to showcase their wares.
Glacial governmental indifference calls for desperate measures, which is what a group of calandrieros – traditional horse-drawn carriage drivers – claim to have resorted to in their fight to preserve a century-old custom and, more importantly, their livelihoods.
Those readers suffering from FIL (Guadalajara International Book Fair) withdrawal just days after it came to a conclusion may ween themselves off their jones with some information regarding next year’s edition, along with a wrap-up of this year’s highlights.
The cost of parking at Guadalajara’s glut of shopping malls tends to be an arbitrary business.Suffice to say, someone, somewhere is making a hatful of money from it.
