The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Procedures and medical personnel are in place at the Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta airports to attend to passengers suspected of carrying the Ebola virus, Jalisco’s Health Secretary said Monday.
Guadalajara’s annual Festival de Cerveza (Beer Festival) hunkers into gear on Friday, October 17, running through Sunday, October 19 in the esplanade outside the Estadio Omnilife.
Backed up traffic and frayed tempers were the order of the day as work began this week on resurfacing Avenida Acueducto, between the Periferico and Av. Patria.
A man who had earlier withdrawn 50,000 pesos from a bank on Avenida Arboledas in Guadalajara was attacked and robbed just after he parked his vehicle in the Costco and Mega parking lot.
The 48th Expo Ganadera Jalisco, considered one of Mexico’s finest livestock fairs, opens Wednesday, October 8 for a 25-day run that will attract thousands of visitors keen on having a look at top-breed farm animals, as well as enjoying a jam-packed schedule of special events.
Torrential rains flooded out at least 1,000 homes in 20 neighborhoods of the Guadalajara metropolitan area in the early hours of Wednesday, according to Jalisco Civil Protection Director Trinidad Lopez Rivas. Reports suggested upward of 500 vehicles suffered damage from the floodwater.
In what seems to have become an annual tradition in Guadalajara, protestors marked the anniversary of the October 2, 1968 student massacre in Mexico City by placing a “murderer” sign on the statue of former Jalisco Governor Marcelino Garcia Barragan that graces the city’s Rotunda of Illustrious Citizens. Garcia was Mexico’s Defense Secretary at the time of the massacre, in which soldiers opened fire on protesting students, killing an unspecified number, believed to be in excess of 300.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Anthony Wayne joined Mexican President Enrique Penã Nieto and other dignitaries for World Tourism Day celebrations, highlighted by a ceremony at Guadalajara’s regal Degollado Theater on Friday, September 26.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Anthony Wayne joined Mexican President Enrique Penã Nieto and other dignitaries for World Tourism Day celebrations, highlighted by a ceremony at Guadalajara's regal Degollado Theater on Friday, September 26.
