Saturday R&R: Marching for a cause
For most people Saturday is a day for chilling out. But not perhaps when you have something on your mind that seriously bugs you.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
For most people Saturday is a day for chilling out. But not perhaps when you have something on your mind that seriously bugs you.
At least 50 motorists were forced to abandon their vehicles on Sunday as water levels rose on the Calzada Independenica in downtown Guadalajara, following an afternoon deluge that brought traffic, the Macrobus service and the Tren Ligero (subway) to a complete standstill.
The summer school break ends Monday but it won’t only be youngsters starting their first day of classes whose nerves will be on edge.
Residents of a Guadalajara neighborhood insist they are not guilty of discrimination or racism by opposing the relocation of a shelter for Central American migrants passing through the city on their way to the United States.
Traffic backed up this week on streets encircling downtown Zapopan as work started on the Basilica station of the city’s third Tren Ligero (subway) line.
Although some medical experts may quibble at the exactness of the statistics, 655 people die on average each year as a direct result of the air contamination in metro-area Guadalajara, according to a new report by the Mexican Institute of Petroleum.
Around 40,000 young devotees walked five kilometers under a blazing sun on Wednesday as part of the annual “Santa Convocacion” celebration of the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo evangelical denomination.
Jalisco’s revised emissions (smog) testing program may include obligatory twice yearly checks for private vehicles more than eight years old, according to information obtained by a metro area Spanish-language daily. Half of the two million cars circulating in Guadalajara fall into this age category, Milenio reported this week.
Under the protective custody and sturdy gaze of Mexico’s heroic boy soldiers, and regardless of gender, race or religion, couples gathered at the Niños Heroes monument in Guadalajara last weekend for the ‘Beso más grande GDL’ event.
Organizers said they had no political or social agenda but wanted the occasion to demonstrate that ‘we are all human and here to live and be happy.’ The slogan of the initiative was ‘there is more love than fear in the world.’