The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Guadalajara city hall celebrates the second annual Día de Torta Ahogada (Torta Ahogada Day) by sponsoring the free handout of 50,000 sliced birotes (bread rolls) stuffed with chunks of shredded pork, topped with raw onion, and submerged in spicy salsa.
Flooding on metro-area streets and avenues is an occupational hazard of the wet season and one that long-timers usually know how to manage.
The relatives of missing persons received some TLC from the Catholic Church’s most senior figure in these parts, when Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, the archbishop of Guadalajara, presided at a special service dedicated to the disappeared on Sunday, August 27 at the imperious but unfinished Santuario de los Mártires in Cerro del Tesoro neighborhood.
On paying their annual car taxes, car owners often have to cough up for unpaid speeding tickets—infractions that, in some cases, they maintain they were completely unaware of.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our August editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
1973
Bing Crosby to bring Women’s Open to GDL
Viva Aerobus will operate five new routes from the new international airport in Tulum, set to open December 1.
For world travelers who need vaccinations as a requirement to enter certain countries, the Jalisco Cruz Roja has two “international vaccination modules” at their disposal.
Mexico’s Supreme Court has struck down local government ordinances in several Jalisco municipalities that restrict children from partaking in soccer and other street games in their neighborhoods—traditions as old as the invention of urban life in Mexico.
A pet-friendly race to support the Mexican Red Cross will be held simultaneously in 32 cities—including Guadalajara—on Sunday, September 10.
