The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Employees and ex-employees at the Jabil electronic plant outside Guadalajara protested this week at their unfair treatment in the wake falling demand for Blackberry products.
Free breast cancer detection tests will be carried out in the Plaza Tapatia on Saturday October 19 – Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Religion and politics meet once again on Saturday, October 12, when vast crowds will gather in Guadalajara. More than a million people – some say two or three – will jam the streets to celebrate the return of the Virgin of Zapopan to her 18th century basilica and in somewhat more subdued festivities a handful of dignitaries and the Spanish and Italian consuls will mark the anniversary of the day Christopher Columbus is said to have sighted land in what he thought was the Far East. The religious celebrations will eclipse the civic ones by far.
The revered 13-inch, corn-based paste statue, known as the Virgin de Zapopan, is always carried in a transparent protective case.
Four members of a gang of bank robbers responsible for at least a quarter of Jalisco’s total of 120 heists this year are under lock and key, Attorney General Carlos Najera announced this week.
The annual festival in Guadalajara is a showcase for Mexico’s burgeoning craft beer industry.
Some Guadalajara Spanish-language newspapers reported that 2.5 million people assembled to watch the colorful procession honoring the revered statue of the Virgin of Zapopan on October 12. Among the distinguished guests was Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio (the Pope’s envoy) to Mexico.
Photo by Hector Hernandez
Four people were injured and eight others suffered nervous breakdowns after the roof of the pediatric ward in Zapopan’s Civil Hospital collapsed on Saturday.
