The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Benito Juarez fairground at Guadalajara’s annual “State Fair,” the Fiestas de Octubre, provides plenty of Mexican-style fun and games, food and entertainment.
A new chapter in the political career of Pedro Kumamoto kicked off this week, when the 28-year-old state legislator informed the National Electoral Institute (INE) that he intends to run for the Mexican Senate as an independent candidate in 2018.
In case you were under the misapprehension that the fracas between operators of the city’s fleet of calandrias (horse-drawn carriages) and a Guadalajara City Hall bent on substituting their equine strength for the much less visually-striking and romantic power of electricity was over and done with, you should know the issue is anything but resolved, with many drivers bridling under new regulations.
The seemingly impossible dream of arriving in Mexico City from Guadalajara in less time than you spend in line at the bank – and without setting foot in Miguel Hidalgo International Airport – hasn’t yet been realized, but it has crept closer to possible fruition.
Tapatia Lorena Ochoa quit professional golf seven years ago at the peak of her career, just two years shy of her 30th birthday.
Lawyers are confident a 2012 murder that shocked Jalisco will finally be classified as a “femicide” rather than “parricide,” thus bringing some closure to family members after a lengthy and traumatic legal process.
Locals express a mix of resignation and pluckiness in the face of three devastating temblors during September that affected Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla, Chiapas and Oaxaca — but not Jalisco.
The future of private-hire (ride-hailing) car services in Guadalajara such as Uber is up in the air as the state government and legislature weighs new regulatory measures governing the U.S.-based company and its clones.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our September editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
