The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A statue of celebrated Jalisco ranchero singer Vicente Fernandez, which was unveiled last weekend in Guadalajara’s Plaza de los Mariachis, has had quite the baptism of fire.
Residents in a Zapopan neighborhood have achieved a rare victory in the battle to stop runaway high-rise development in the metro-area municipality.
Surrounded by Guadalajara’s iconic, yellow-tile spires, La Rotonda de Los Jaliscienses Ilustres e Ilustras, and the Palacio Municipal, an underground warren of locales (shops) to which nobody pays much attention, is spread out beneath a bustling but bleak plaza and its fountain. Welcome to Plaza Guadalajara.
The Catholic Church is “immovable” in its position that abortion should remain a criminal offense, Cardinal Jose Francisco Robles Ortega, the archbishop of Guadalajara, declared this week.
Guadalajara will try to set a new Guinness record by creating the largest ever human breast cancer awareness bow on Saturday, October 19.
An earthquake hazard evaluation carried out by a respected Japanese outfit has sent shock waves reverberating through Zapopan city hall.
The credit rating agency Fitch has raised Zapopan from an AA to a AAA rating, according to Mayor Pedro Lemus.
Guadalajara city hall has launched a program to rid the municipality of “apartalugares,” people who illegally place buckets and other objects to “reserve” free parking spaces on streets and then charge motorists for the privilege of using them.
Charged up by the recent decision of the Oaxaca legislature to legalize abortion in that state, activists in Guadalajara – nearly all female – took to the streets of Guadalajara September 28, on International Safe Abortion Day.
