The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Shoppers won’t be the only eagle-eyed people out and about this long holiday weekend as retailers offer a bevy of discounts in Buen Fin – Mexico’s equivalent to Black Friday.
An abandoned swimming pool that has become a magnet for local gangs and drug addicts will be the first project in Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro’s new program to rehabilitate public spaces that have fallen into disuse (Programa para Recuperación de Espacios Públicos).
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.
Travelers on Guadalajara’s subway network rolled up their sleeves to receive inoculations last week as the Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) launched the biggest flu vaccination program in its history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
