The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A public transport Guadalajara-Chapala bus that was following a local east-to-west route was involved in a highway accident Sunday, May 19 in the vicinity of La Mojonera near the border with Jocotepec, leaving 18 passengers with moderate to severe injuries.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our May editions 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.
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Novel degrees granted
Until June 23, Guadalajara’s Museo de las Artes (MUSA) is hosting a large retrospective showcasing the creative mind of Rafael Cauduro, one of Mexico’s most recognized contemporary artists who combined social commentary, experimentation, juxtaposition, abstraction and eroticism with an immense technical mastery.
The Guadalajara Beekeepers Association (Apicultores de Guadalajara) will hold the first Perla Tapatia Feria de la Miel (Honey Fair) from May 16 to 20 under the arches that surround the Municipal Palace in the Guadalajara city center.
New phone number
Guadaajara’s Teatro Degollado has a new telephone number for its box office: 33-30-30-1391.
Met Live
The Met Live in HD transmission of Puccini’s bittersweet love story La Rondine. Maestro Speranza Scappucci conducts Nicolas Joël’s glittering 1920s staging, which transports audiences from the heart of Parisian nightlife to a dreamy vision of the French Riviera.
The suspension of the Guadalajara metro-area water supply to homes in 250 neighborhoods last weekend was not due to chronic shortages as initially reported, but a result of “electrical issues” at the pumping station that sends millions of gallons of H2O from Lake Chapala to the thirsty metropolis, according to the Jalisco state government and SIAPA, the metro-area water utility.
Women from several NGOs commandeered the bandstand in Guadalajara’s Plaza de Armas last week, where they hooked up a “clothesline” on which they attached photographs of men accused of being child support debtors.
Techno wizardry
Afterlife, a world-acclaimed techno event founded in 2016 by Italian duo Tale Of Us, comes to the Akron Stadium in Guadalajara Friday, May 17.
