The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Guadalajara has inked a sister city relationship with Changwon, the eighth most populous city is South Korea.
Changwon Mayor Wan Su Park visited Mexico this week to sign the agreement alongside his Guadalajara counterpart, Ramiro Hernandez.
Guadalajara-born nun Maria Guadalupe Anastasia García Zavala (Madre Lupita) will become a saint on Sunday, May 12 in a special ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
Around 45 people gathered on Sunday morning to participate in the first Jane’s Walk neighborhood tour in Guadalajara. Led by volunteers and offered for free, the annual walks are named after American-Canadian urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs.
Jalisco Secretaría de Movilidad (SM) officials say U.S. manufactured anti-photo license covers designed to make car tags invisible to speed cameras do not work. Selling the micas (covers) with the promise that motorists will be able to escape speeding tickets is fraudulent and should be denounced at the Consumer Protection Agency, say Movilidad officials.
A fire started by day trippers in the Primavera Forest on Sunday consumed 132 hectares of mostly vegetation and brushland and took 200 firefighters and emergency personal more than 48 hours to control.
Firefighters believed they had contained the fire early on Monday but strong afternoon winds rekindled the flames.
Two firefighting aircraft rented by the Zapopan municipal government from the United States last week were put to use immediately.
Representatives of onstruction firms hired to work on venues for the 2011 Pan American Games demonstrated outside the state Government Palace this week demanding to be paid around 350 million pesos (29million dollars) they say they are owed.
Just before he left office in March Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez negotiated a loan, part of which was to be used to pay off the government’s Pan American Games debts.
Guadalajara transportation authorities have thrown cold water on calls to introduce a program similar to Mexico “City’s “Hoy No Circula” (Day Without a Car) – for the short term at least.
Civic groups have demanded tough measures to halt rising contamination mostly caused by 1.7 million vehicles circulating in the metropolitan area.
As hundreds of fans watched famed rejoneador Pablo Hermosa de Mendoza fight bulls astride his horse at a ring in Tlaquepaque on Saturday, a small but no less significant number of activists protested at what they called “a brutal spectacle.”
Members of Igualdad Animal y Sociedad en Rechazo de las Corridas had criticized Tlaquepaque Mayor Alfredo Barba for promoting the bullfight, suggesting that his position of authority warranted neutrality on the divisive issue.
