The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In the early morning hours of Friday, August 16, a fictitious terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate General — complete with smoke filling the street below hovering helicopters — may have attracted the notice of passersby as it helped train 65 personnel from Jalisco state and Guadalajara city police, K-9 units, bomb squads, emergency medical teams, firefighters, and hospital administrations.
Jalisco civil organizations diagnosed over 5,000 HIV cases in the 2018 fiscal year thanks to sufficient federal support.
The suspected founder of the powerful Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG) oddly walked free in 2018 despite having received a long sentence for drug-trafficking related offenses.
Chapala is one of 15 Jalisco municipalities designated for an auditing process to examine the spending of federal funds during 2018.
Hailstorms turned parts of Guadalajara into a winter wonderland last Sunday, blanketing several Zapopan neighborhoods in sheets of ice.
The federal government won’t allocate new funding for the controversial Zapotillo Dam in northeastern Jalisco until agreements have been reached between the federal government, Jalisco and Guanajuato authorities and the local community that will be affected by the project, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced this week.
Agents from the Fiscalía de Jalisco (State Attorney General’s Office or FGE) arrested former state Education Secretary Antonio Gloria Morales Tuesday for his “probable responsibility” in a fraudulent property deal.
Mayors from the metro-area municipalities of Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tonala and Tlajomulco (along with a representative from Tlaquepaque) hold up an agreement they signed Tuesday with México Evalúa to halt the increasing number of intentional homicides in the city.
A demonstration against last week’s 36-percent increase in city bus and light train fares got out of hand last Friday, resulting in several arrests amid accusations of excessive use of force by police officers.
