The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Participants in the “No Kings” rally outside the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara show their creative signs Saturday, June 14.
Join a free, guided five-kilometer bike ride in celebration of World Tree Day, where you’ll learn about Guadalajara’s diverse trees, including the guaje, ash, tabachín, guamuchil and jacaranda.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said he ordered the revocation of the U.S. visa of a Morena Party operative and employee of the Jalisco State Congress following what he called a crude and inflammatory social media post.
As part of a comprehensive initiative to support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Zapopan has opened its second Autism Center in the Miramar neighborhood—the largest facility of its kind in Latin America.
An alleged audio recording of Valeria Márquez—the 23-year-old beautician and influencer who was murdered while livestreaming from her beauty salon in Zapopan on May 13—contains shocking statements that appear to reveal the emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her boyfriend.
On Tuesday, June 10, a 60-year-old woman tragically died after being struck by falling concrete from the awning of a store in the Obregón shopping area of downtown Guadalajara. The collapse occurred around 2:30 p.m. at the corner of Obregón and José María Mercado. The awning measured approximately six by one meters.
It was confirmed that the unlucky woman was simply passing by the store at the time of the incident. Guadalajara Municipal Civil Protection could not determine whether the collapse was caused by overnight rainfall softening the awning material or by longer-term structural issues.
Walls collapse
Meanwhile, the storm that pummeled the metro area in the early hours of Tuesday caused part of the perimeter wall of José Rosas Moreno Elementary School in Tonalá to collapse. Also on Tuesday, a wall surrounding the workshops of the city’s Light Train Network (Siteur) in the Tetlán neighborhood of Guadalajara collapsed. No one was injured in either of the incidents, according to local emergency services.
With the rainy season intensifying, authorities have urged the public to check the condition of their walls, roofs, and similar structures.
Frequent users of the Carretera Guadalajara-Chapala—one of Jalisco’s most traveled highways—can expect further disruptions to traffic flow over the next few weeks.
The Guadalajara municipal government has distanced itself from a young woman who sparked outrage on social media after confessing on TikTok to having killed a dog as part of a religious ritual. In a statement,
The internationally recognized environmental nonprofit Instituto Corazón de la Tierra (ICT) has weighed in on the Jalisco government’s recent announcement of plans to build a complementary aqueduct to supply water from Lake Chapala to the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
