The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
For decades, families have been coming to the Day of the Dead market in downtown Guadalajara’s Parque Morelos to purchase materials for Day of the Dead altars.
A frustrated student from Monterrey went off script and criticized the government while delivering the closing address at the 11th International Business Summit held at the Expo Guadalajara this week.
The Day of the Dead has little to do with morbidity. Not only is it a way for Mexicans to poke some fun at death – a natural stage in the life cycle, we often forget – but in so doing they also convey a great respect for life.
The city’s third Tren Ligero (light train or subway) line should not run through the downtown area anywhere near the Metropolitan Cathedral, says Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñíguez, the former archbishop of Guadalajara.
The historic Arcediano footbridge crossing the Santiago River to the north of Guadalajara has reopened to the public at weekends and on holidays.
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval plans to introduce a second Macrobus line on Guadalajara’s notoriously dangerous Periferico beltway.
More than 6,000 people were evacuated from their homes and offices and 15 schools were closed after natural gas leaked from an underground distribution pipe on Guadalajara’s Avenida Cruz del Sur on Wednesday morning.
Next weekend, Guadalajara city hall hopes to erect the biggest altar to the dead Jalisco (and perhaps Mexico) has ever seen in the Agua Azul Park. The effort is part of a campaign to regenerate interest in this downtown Guadalajara park that once was the pride and joy of the “City of the Roses.”
More than 3,000 Guadalajara bus drivers will receive a 40-hour crash course to help them improve their driving techniques and social skills for dealing with the public.
