Deluge turns scores of city streets into surging rivers
Heavy rainfall on Tuesday afternoon brought many parts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area to a standstill.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Heavy rainfall on Tuesday afternoon brought many parts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area to a standstill.
Alerted by neighbors, social workers turned up at a house in a rundown city neighborhood this week to find two children, aged two and four, chained up by their absent mother.
While dragging a calandria along Avenida Chapultepec this week, a horse slipped and fell on the brand new, brick-like surface. The image went viral on Twitter; the horse is fine.
Female activists last week staged a protest outside Guadalajara’s Puerta de Hierro hospital to highlight the situation of former receptionist Yuridia Delgado Luevano, who says she was fired by the hospital after she told her bosses that she was a lesbian.
The city of Guadalajara figures sketchily in histories of the Mexican Revolution. Most significant events of the savage ten-year civil war (1910-20) that tore Mexico apart took place in other parts of this huge nation.
Police have detained a man who while posing as a priest offered his services to “bless” business premises and even handle divorces.
Traffic cops in Guadalajara are getting tough on inconsiderate motorists who park their vehicles in bays reserved exclusively for disabled people.
The fiercely territorial nature of policing in the metropolitan area thawed a little this week with the start of joint patrols by Guadalajara and Zapopan municipal cops.
Expo Guadalajara will be buzzing as some 40,000 geeks and techies armed with laptops and other gadgets flood into the fifth edition of the Campus Party over the next five days.