The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Ever since the 1985 earthquake which claimed the lives of more than 9,500 people, September 19 has been designated Día Nacional de Protección Civil (National Civil Protection Day).
Not surprisingly, Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, the archbishop of Guadalajara, this week criticized the recent decision of Mexico’s Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the criminalization of abortion in the federal penal code.
Yet another inter-city bus has plunged into a ravine in western Mexico, this time killing ten people in the municipality of Villa de Arriaga in San Luis Potosi in the early evening of Monday, September 11.
The pristine courts at the Pan American Tennis Center in Zapopan are ready and waiting to receive the world’s best female tennis players.
A tragedy at a Zapopan underpass occurred just a few hours after this newspaper went to press last week—an edition in which we published a front-page image and caption highlighting the dangers of flash flooding in Guadalajara tunnels.
In what promises to be an enjoyable prelude to its regular season beginning in October, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) will play for three performances by the illustrious Ballet de Jalisco in Russian pianist and composer Sergei Prokofiev’s popular ballet “Cinderella” (“Cenicienta” in Spanish).
If you own a pre-1980 classic car you might wish to participate in the first Distinguished Gentleman’s Drive event to be held in Guadalajara.
Queen without Freddie Mercury, Police without Sting and Dire Straits without Mark Knopfler. What’s that all about? Like scones without the clotted cream and jam?
In a cultural first for this state, on September 13 the 98 members of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra gave a performance inside the Puente Grande state penitentiary located on the outskirts of Guadalajara.
