The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) will create a special prosecutor’s office that will focus on cases of missing persons in the state.
In the town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, state and federal police are the objects of rage as citizens demonstrate over the imprisonment and alleged torture of a security guard, Antonio Luna, whom authorities have accused of killing his three young sons, ages 4, 8 and 11, in a January 14 late night shootout involving police. Authorities also allege that on the same occasion Luna tried to kill his wife.
Ajijic tried it a few years ago with mixed success; now the town of Tequila is hoping to draw movie fans by hosting its own International Film Festival from Tuesday, February 8 through Saturday, February 11.
Governor Aristoteles Sandoval says Jalisco needs to look further afield than the United States to rid this state of its economic “dependency” on its northern neighbor.
A massive give-away of tacos in Guadalajara’s Parque Revolucion managed to bring in more than 800 kilograms of food for the Jalisco Family Development Agency (DIF) to distribute to needy families.
It’s no wonder Jalisco is so keen to grab a slice of the U.S. avocado market that neighbors Michoacan currently monopolizes. Americans are loco for the fruit – especially when Super Bowl time comes around.
Women and men demonstrating last Saturday in a haven for foreign tourists and retirees in the state of Guanajuato report an enthusiastic showing of people expressing support for women’s rights and disdain for the agenda of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump.
“It was wonderful to have and show a ‘voice of protest’ for all that Trump stands for, which is disrespect, intolerance and superiority, not just to women but to the majority of the human population,” said Canadian Deborah King of San Miguel de Allende, adding “God help America!”
San Miguel resident and U.S. citizen Barbara Espinosa said she supported the march and donated toward it, but at the last moment decided not to attend. “Maybe it was silly, but I was concerned whether they had a permit and whether or not it was okay for foreigners to demonstrate here, even though we were not demonstrating against the Mexican government.
“I also wondered if a march would do any good. Then I saw that thousands came out around the world.”
She reported that it was also disconcerting that Mexicans from San Miguel were demonstrating at the same time against the jailing of a local father in the alleged killing of his three young sons (see story below) and, in addition, there were big crowds celebrating revolutionary hero Ignacio Allende, after whom the town is named.
Jude Wallesen, a Guadalajara resident, attended the San Miguel march. “It was beautiful. Lots of men, everyone in red and white. I was glad to be a part of it.”
Marchers reported that organizers of the women’s demonstration provided very good simultaneous translations in Spanish of the speeches. However, the majority of the participants were foreigners, they noted, perhaps because other local events that weekend so greatly interested Mexicans.
Estimates of the crowd size were informal, ranging from 250 people to over 2,000.
The first shipments of avocados sent from Jalisco to the United States in more than 100 years were unable to cross the border last week and Mexico’s federal government is being blamed for the fiasco.
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has suggested that President Donald Trump’s policies toward Mexico endanger the “social harmony” enjoyed by the large U.S. expatriate community in this state.
