The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Nowadays, the lead up to the Oscars, with the rush of other televised awards ceremonies, often turns the actual event itself into a damp squib. And with so many of the gongs considered a shoo-in, the major excitement often lies in seeing whether the presenter/s hit any highs or bomb dramatically.
In a rare public statement U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne has denounced aggressions against the press in Mexico.
Homages to the Mexican flag will be paid across the length and breadth of the nation on Tuesday, February 24 – Dia de la Bandera. Ceremonies in the Plaza de la LIberacion in downtown Guadalajara start at 8 a.m., featuring students selected by their schools for their high academic grades.
The Hay Festival of literature and arts has cancelled its event in Veracruz in protest against the failure to protect freedom of expression in the state. Organizers of the event said that 800 writers around the world had contacted them asking for the cancellation, following a spate of attacks on journalists. In January, Moises Sanchez became the 15th journalist to be killed or disappeared in Veracruz since 2010.
Jalisco authorities have released another high-profile criminal on a legal technicality. Sandra Avila Beltran, better known as the “Queen of the Pacific,” has been set free after a judge ruled that she had already served time for the five-year sentence that was keeping her behind bars.
Aeromexico will launch direct flights from Mexico City to Toronto and Boston, as of May and June respectively, the airline’s director general Andres Conesa revealed in the February edition of its in-flight magazine Aire.
The haunting imagery of “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” has carried the ballad from the pen of Woody Guthrie to the stadium concerts of Bruce Springsteen.
Huge United Kingdom-based online take-out ordering service Just Eat has acquired Mexico’s SinDelantal.Mx for a reported 20 million dollars.
President Enrique Peña Nieto landed in Guadalajara Monday to lead the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding the Mexican Air Force, and also to open new installations at the Military Air College in Zapopan.
