Due to a surge in violent criminal acts in the Los Altos region of northeast Jalisco, the rector of the University Center of Lagos de Moreno (CULagos) has curtailed the institution’s hours in a bid to safeguard students.
The university’s 14-hour schedule of two turns has been reduced to 12 hours. Classes will start one hour later, at 8 a.m., and end one hour earlier, at 8 p.m.
Students welcomed the move, although some told reporters that they feared walking the streets at any time of the day.
The measure was taken after the recent disappearance of five young men, who were later seen on a gruesome video being tortured, allegedly by members of a criminal organization. One of them is an engineering student at the campus, which operates under the umbrella of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG).
The whereabouts of the five, aged from 19 to 22, are still unknown. The calcinated remains of several bodies discovered at an abandoned property on the outskirts of Lagos de Moreno do not belong to the five missing persons, state authorities said this week.
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