The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A pilot and his student got a massive break this week after their light aircraft developed a mechanical fault during a flying lesson.
The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a plowed field in Santa Cruz de las Flores in the municipality of Tlajomulco. Even though the plane upended on landing, both the pilot and his pupil walked away from the accident without a scratch.
As a foreigner in Mexico, are you prepared to call for help in an emergency situation? First off, keep these key lakeside phone numbers close at hand and on speed dial:
The number of Jalisco citizens deported from the United States between January 1 and April 16 fell by 30 percent
State authorities haven’t ruled out implementing measures to limit access to the Primavera Forest after several fires raged in the federally protected nature reserve this week, laying waste to 800 hectares of brushland and forcing more than 70 schools to close their doors in metro-area suburbs and outlying towns and villages.
The sky over Cajititlan will be crowded with inflatable objects of all shapes and sizes the weekend of May 5-7, as the town pays host to a balloon festival just east of the town’s namesake lake.
Obtaining a driver’s license in Guadalajara will – in theory, at least – be a smoother and quicker process come next month.
Foreign citizens who have jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops required to obtain residency visas in Mexico may run the risk of losing that legal status whenever they venture out for travel beyond the country’s borders.
The first person to bring a weapon to the gun turn-in campaign that started in Guadalajara’s Plaza de la Liberacion on April 24 went home happy with some new kitchen equipment.
Eighteen children are able to hear sounds for the first time after being fitted with cochlear implants, surgically implanted electronic devices that provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing in both ears.
