The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Aficionados arriving for the big corrida (bullfight) at Guadalajara’s Plaza Nuevo Progreso on Sunday were subjected to a barrage of chanting from animal welfare protestors demanding an end to a tradition they regard as barbaric and akin to torture.
Protestors laid down in the street and covered themselves in white sheets marked with the letters SOS to highlight the alarming increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths in Guadalajara in 2014.
Residents of Zapopan’s affluent Patria Universidad neighborhood awoke early Thursday morning to the sound of military helicopters buzzing overhead and the sight of troops rumbling by in jeeps and armored vehicles.
The number of flu-related deaths in Jalisco had risen to 71 by February 11, state health authorities reported Wednesday.
Earlier this week, state and federal health officials indicated this season’s flu outbreak seemed under control, but now the number of those ill with the virus is multiplying rapidly in Jalisco and the rest of the country.
The Canadian company given the task of setting up Guadalajara’s public bicycle hire program filed for bankruptcy in Montreal last month, citing huge debts.
A local multimedia firm has become the first company to move into Guadalajara’s much vaunted Ciudad Creativa Digital, or Digital Creative City, in downtown.
A prototype electronic screen displaying information on approaching city buses has been installed at a Guadalajara bus stop.
Federal and state flood relief funds from last September’s tropical storm Manuel are at last being distributed to 29 municipalities hard hit by flooding.
