The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The third Illusionante Christmas festival begins Thursday, December 7 in downtown Guadalajara and will include concerts, carnival rides, fireworks displays, fake snow shows, video mapping projections on buildings, an ice skating rink, a Christmas market, a Santa’s factory, photos with Santa, a giant tree and a full-size nativity scene.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our November editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Yes, we know it’s still November, but Thanksgiving has come and gone, so it’s time to have that great annual debate once more: real or fake—Christmas trees, that is.
Mexican poet and translator Coral Bracho (bottom) received the $US150,000 FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages at the opening ceremony of the 37th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).
Last year, motorbikes were involved in 47 percent of all accidents that resulted in either injuries or deaths in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, according to Guadalajara municipal government statistics.
Now almost a decade old, the state’s Traffic Department’s (Setran) “Salvando Vidas” (Saving Lives) campaign, which seeks to curb drunk driving with strict measures such as random breathalyzer stops, will again turn up the heat on inebriated motorists from a simmer to a boil, just in time for the year’s most besotted season.
A benefit performance of music from the much-loved opera “Carmina Burana,” featuring the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Guadalajara, will be held on Sunday, December 3, 6 p.m. at the Teatro Diana in Guadalajara.
Christmas is just around the corner and yuletide seasonal activities have already hit the ground running in Guadalajara.
About 90 tickets were sold for the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the newly remodeled American Society of Jalisco in Guadalajara.
