The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Feeling a bit of the excitement promised by the name – “¡A volar!” (Let’s fly!) – of the new bird exhibit at Guadalajara’s Museo de Paleontología (Museum of Paleontology),
Juan Pedro Franco, a 32-year-old from Aguascalientes recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most obese person in the world, underwent weight-loss surgery at a Guadalajara clinic earlier this year.
Only 11 percent of all calls made to the 911 emergency number in the first six months of 2017 were actual pleas for assistance. The rest were either hoax calls, or citizens without emergencies.
Guadalajara was graced by the presence of a Nobel Prize winner last Tuesday, a guest speaker for the Forum on Climate Change in the Palacio Municipal.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our July editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Guadalajara city hall is moving forward with a ban on equine participation in the decades-old calandria (horse-drawn carriage) tradition in the city center, despite growing concerns at how the changeover is being managed.
Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro has justified the cost of a public sculpture commissioned to Joe Fors, one of the city’s foremost artists, and an accomplished musician to boot.
Guadalajara’s most popular zone for after-dark fun also has the dubious distinction of being one of the favored haunts of local villains.
Readers of the Reporter have surely noticed my occasional jibes against sources of irritating noise in Mexico: loud neighbors, salones de eventos, balnearios, leaf blowers, all-terrain vehicles – the list is long.
