The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A whole lotta’ rock will be carted around Calle Lopez Cotilla through mid-May as Guadalajara municipal authorities undertake renovation of the much-traveled, two-lane street in the five-block stretch between Avenida Chapultepec and Robles Gil.
Zia Zafar, 31, a U.S. citizen and the lead suspect in the January 6 shooting of a consular officer from the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara, has been returned to the United States after being expelled from Mexico.
A man arrested on suspicion of shooting at a official from the U.S. Consulate General Friday will be deported to the United States, the federal Attorney General’s Office and Foreign Relations Ministry said in a joint communique issued Sunday afternoon.
State police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting of a U.S. consular official at a Guadalajara shopping mall on Friday. The Fiscalía General de Jalisco (State Attorney General’s Office, FGE) sent out a tweet just before 10 a.m. Sunday announcing the detention of the alleged agressor, who was later named by media sources as Zafar Zia, 31.
A consular officer from the U.S. Consulate General is in “stable condition” in hospital after being shot in the chest Friday afternoon in Guadalajara.
As a result of January 1 increases in the cost of gasoline, online taxi service Uber will raise its prices in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, the company announced Thursday in a press release.
Upgrades at three municipal Cruz Verde (Green Cross) facilities in the metropolitan area will offer thousands of citizens improved access to low-cost emergency medical services.
