The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco Attorney General Carlos Najera is loosing patience with his critics in the wake of the arrest of two public servants in connection with the August 3 murder of Ayutla Mayor Manuel Gomez Torres and a municipal employee.
Residents of Guadalajara will be the main sufferers if the Zapotillo Dam in northeast Jalisco is not built to its planned height of 105 meters, the director general of Mexico’s National Water Commission (CNA) said this week.
Waving symbolic flags, Governor Aristoteles Sandoval and other invited dignitaries on Monday initiated the regional operations of the state’s new crack law-enforcement squad, the Fuerza Unica Jalisco.
One out of every four cops in the state of Jalisco has flunked the national police vetting exam, known as control de confianza.
Rosa del Carmen Verduzco, the 79-year-old director of the Gran Familia children’s shelter in Zamora, Michoacan, will not face prosecution over allegations that minors were routinely mistreated at the facility she has operated for more than 50 years.
Manuel Gomez Torres, the 74-year-old mayor of Ayutla, Jalisco, was ambushed by unidentified gunmen as he returned to his ranch Sunday along with his bodyguard, identified as José de Jesús Hernández, 60. Both men died at the scene.
SSJ to get jump on flu jab season
The flu season takes a respite during the spring and summer months but state health authorities are warning the public not to drop their guard against the possibility of influenza infection.
Two investigative state police officers were shot and killed in Tlajomulco after they stopped a tanker (pipa) they believed was carrying stolen Pemex gasoline.
A new animal protection law (Ley de Protección a los Animales) took effect in Jalisco this week but the State Attorney General’s Office was far from ready to receive complaints and act on reports of abuse, local media sources have revealed.
