The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The young tiktoker known as “Fofo”, who blocked Guadalajara’s Matute Remus suspension bridge with luxury cars in order to record a video, carried out 12 hours of community service this week after he handed himself in to city authorities and issued an apology.
A military/police operation to arrest a leading figure in the Jalisco Nuevo Generation Cartel (CJNG) unleashed a wave of coordinated violent incidents in Guadalajara and municipalities in the neighboring state of Guanajuato Tuesday evening, with armed gang members torching buses, cars, gas stations and stores.
In the face of fierce criticism from opposition councilors, Guadalajara City Hall officials have justified the high cost of elaborating a statue designed by the late artist and architect Luis Barragan that will be erected at a “mini glorieta” on the new stretch of the Paseo Alcalde at the intersection of 16 de Septiembre, Leandro Valle and Colegiales in the Guadalajara city center.
Singers wanted
In a bid to promote the careers of budding singers, organizers of Guadalajara’s International Mariachi Festival have put out a call to find the “representative voice of the Mariachi.”
An all-white bicycle was erected this week at the intersection of Ocho de Julio and Arturo Carrillo in the Polanco neighborhood of Guadalajara, at the site of an accident which claimed the life of 23-year-old Ángel Itzcoatl Vera Hernández, the eighth metro-area cyclist to perish this year.
A exhibition titled “La Primavera, past and present” has opened at the Guadalajara Museum of Paleontology, illustrating the rich and varied geology, biology and archaeology of this Natural Protected Area bordering the western rim of the metropolitan area.
Yet another hotel has opened on the stretch of highway running between the periferico (city beltway) and the Guadalajara International Airport.
The driver of a car died Saturday, July 23 when fierce winds caused a large tree to fall on his vehicle at the intersection of Niños Heroes and Argentina in Colonia Moderna. Firefighters managed to extract two passengers from the vehicle safely.
The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara sponsored a forum on battling the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation, held Friday, July 29 at Chapala’s Centro Cultural González Gallo.
