The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Guadalajara’s new state-of-the-art planetarium should be up and running by October at the latest, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval announced this week during a visit to the site, located a stone’s throw from La Normal Glorieta.
Over the course of this unusually rainy month of May, you may have asked yourself, “Is all this refreshing precipitation a fluke, or has Jalisco’s rainy season come to call a bit early”?
Pedro Kumamoto, one of two independent Senate candidates in Jalisco, has called for an end to the “dirty war” that political parties are waging in the current campaign season.
The first televised debate among the seven candidates vying to become the next governor of Jalisco was held last Sunday in Guadalajara.
This year has been unkind to Jalisco in the sphere of murders. With 171 dead, March was declared the state’s single bloodiest month since 1997.
Tourism record set
The number of international tourists visiting Mexico in the first quarter of 2018 increased by 12.6 percent compared with last year, setting a new record, according to the nation’s Tourism Ministry.
Three fire fighters lost their lives while combatting a blaze Saturday, April 28 near Concepcion de Buenos Aires, a town characterized – like nearby Mazamitla – by dry forests of pine trees.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the frontrunner in Mexico’s 2018 presidential race, is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Jocotepec on Saturday, May 19.
Jalisco legislator Veronica Jimenez Vazquez has proposed a new law to punish participation in dog fighting with up to five years in prison and 161,200 pesos in fines.
