The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
An exhibition of Playmobil figures illustrating the history of Jalisco will be up at Guadalajara’s Museo Panteón de Belén (cemetery) through September 30. In addition to the colorful figures, the exhibit features famous local monuments, public spaces and archaeological zones.
Well-known Mexican rapper Lefty SM (Juan Carlos Sauceda) died from gunshot wounds during a failed kidnap attempt at his house in La Cima subdivision of Zapopan on the evening of Saturday, September 2.
Health expert calls for a Covid vaccination program in Mexico prior to the advent of winter; new vaccines coming in the United States.
An intensive storm that pummeled Guadalajara on the evening of Thursday, August 31—dumping more water on the metro area than on any day of this year’s rainy season—left dozens of vehicles waterlogged and stranded, and tow truck firms overwhelmed with requests for assistance, Householders in more than 100 properties across the city reported damage from flood waters.
The state government is negligent in its duty to look for and locate missing persons, relatives of the disappeared and ONGs often say. Jalisco authorities, on the other hand, vigorously defend their efforts to investigate cases and maintain they are determined to tackle this societal trauma.
Tlajomulco authorities successfully captured a Bengal tiger that escaped from a property in the metro-area municipality’s Guadalupana neighborhood on August 30.
In a bid to encourage Mexican citizens to draw up wills, the federal government has proclaimed September “Mes de Testamento” and public notaries are lowering their fees throughout the month.
If Senator Xóchitl Galvez is to win the presidency next year, votes from the traditionally conservative state of Jalisco will be vital to her cause.
Taking the toll road between Guadalajara and Lagos de Moreno is becoming a perilous drive.
This newspaper in its May 4 edition described how a Canadian couple was held up by armed carjackers on this stretch of highway (80D)—a harrowing incident on the kind of road that has traditionally been considered the safest way to travel through Mexico.
