The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Guadalajara celebrated the first Municipal Tejuino Day by handing out 25,000 free servings of the traditional fermented corn drink on Sunday, March 19 in the centro historico.
The project to replace all the horse-drawn calandrias (carriages) operating in the Guadalajara city center with electric-powered surrogates has been on hold for the last two years due to legal complications, Mayor Pablo Lemus explained this week.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our March editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
A memorial sculpture to the victims of femicide is to be erected outside the Torres Bodet Theater on Guadalajara’s Paseo Chapultepec.
City and state officials cut the ribbon this week at the unveiling of a 40-meter-tall monolithic public sculpture that has been erected at one of downtown Guadalajara’s most lethal intersections, often referred to as the “Star of Death.”
Catherine Finerty, former New York advertising executive, lived with the Wixárikas (members of the Wixáritari or Huichol people) on tribal land in the Sierra Madre Occidental, the first non-Huichol permitted to do so.
State legislators this week rejected a proposal submitted by the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to eliminate the 500-peso charge for inspections required in the revamped emissions testing program (Verificacion responsable).
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, the Guadalajara Zoo will set general admission at 35 pesos on Saturday, March 25.
Guinness on tap
The Real Irish Pub, located at Libertad 1900, across from the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara, will open early, at 4:30 p.m., on Friday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day.
