Empowering girls to become tech creators
A group of girls who designed a mobile application that aims to help their fellow teenagers and young women confronted with life-threatening situations took the top prize at Guadalajara’s first Technovation competition Wednesday night.
Jim Sheridan, the Irish director of hits such as “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father,” told the Guadalajara Film Festival this week that he plans to work on a movie based on the exploits of the Irish San Patricio Battalion, that defected from the U.S. to the Mexican side in the Mexican–American War of 1846-8.
A few years back animal rights groups called out the city government on the poor health of the horses that guide tourists through the Guadalajara centro in the quaint antique carriages referred to as calandrias.