The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
On December 1, the Guadalajara delegation of the country’s Foreign Relations Department (Relaciones Exteriores) will move from the Palacio Federal on Avenida Alcalde to Plaza Bonita, on Avenida Mexico, next to Plaza Mexico.
Parents of some of the 43 students who disappeared in the state of Guerrero in September 2014 took part in a November 20 march from Guadalajara’s Parque Revolucion to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) on Avenida 16 de Septiembre.
Marcela Paramo Ortega has been honored as the Social Benefactor of the Year by the Institutio Jaliscience de Asistencia Social (IJAS), the agency that regulates all non-profits in the state of Jalisco.
Complete with its new roof but still without doors, windows, benches or flooring, the Santuario de los Mártires (Martyrs’ Sanctuary) hosted its first mass last Sunday, welcoming 10,000 Catholics to its hilltop home in the economically challenged Cerro del Cuatro barrio on Guadalajara’s south side.
Police hurled tear gas canisters Wednesday to break up a protest by unlicensed street vendors angry at having been forcibly ejected from Calle Obregon, a traditional locale in downtown Guadalajara for sales of counterfeit and contraband merchandize.
Three diners have been gunned to death at an eatery on Lopez Cotilla’s popular “Restaurant Row,” one block from the Centro Magno mall.
Choral director, acclaimed pianist, Lakeside resident and director of the well known choir Los Cantantes del Lago, Timothy G. Ruff Welch, has been named to direct the prestigious Coro de Zapopan.
Literary-minded folks from around the globe will invade Guadalajara for the International Book Fair over the next nine days and that’s good news for traders at the city’s laid-back Trocadero antiques bazaar.
Despite the rhetoric excreting from the mouths of some poorly educated presidential wannabes north of the Mexican border, most migrants are not criminals and, if pertinent data is carefully examined, they seem no more likely to commit crimes than any other citizen.
