The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
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.
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.
Vallarta Pride 2018 will run from May 20 to 27 and celebrate the port’s 100th anniversary with the theme, “100 Reasons to Celebrate.”
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.
Construction has begun on a new Patrón Tequila plant in the eastern Jalisco town of Atotonilco El Alto.
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.
“Ariadne’s Thread,” a sculpture all in burnished steel, has appeared at the corner of Lazaro Cardenas and Niño Obrero in Zapopan.
