The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A man who held up a Guadalajara convenience store with a toy gun was shot and injured by an off-duty security guard, who authorities said “worked for an (unidentified) official from Chapala” and who by chance happened to be in the outlet at the time of the assault.
Stand by for some fireworks in Guadalajara city center next Tuesday.
The world’s heaviest man, who at one time weighed in at 435 kilograms (959 pounds), underwent bariatric surgery at a Guadalajara clinic this week.
Guadalajara municipal officials are looking to bring an halt to the sale of live animals in the sprawling, open-air Baratillo flea market that encompasses dozens of streets on the east side of Guadalajara each Sunday.
Cesar Coll Carabias, Guadalajara’s first opposition mayor who took office in 1995 after a campaign espousing honesty in government, spent last weekend behind bars.
According to statistics from the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), 11 percent of the elderly population in Jalisco are subjected to either abuse, mistreatment or abandonment.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres are among the keynote speakers at the 13th Mexico Business Summit taking place this week at Expo Guadalajara.
A bank customer who was robbed at gunpoint shortly after withdrawing 200,000 pesos took the law into his own hands and chased the assailants in his car – only to provoke a multiple traffic accident.
Metro-area mayors are urging residents to stay indoors as Hurricane Patricia hits Guadalajara late Friday or early Saturday. Experts at Mexico’s National Weather Center expect the hurricane to weaken as it moves inland and it may have been downgraded to category one or two, or even a tropical storm, by the time it reaches the city.
