State accused of turning blind eye to reports of missing women
Jalisco law enforcement agencies are facing criticism for not taking the disappearance of women seriously and for acting too slowly when reports of missing persons are filed.
“It’s a theme that no one seems to be talking about,” said Guadalupe Ramos Ponce, coordinator of the state branch of the Latin American Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights.
More than 1,180 women are currently reported as missing in the state of Jalisco.
Ramos told the Informador newspaper that evidence suggests that many cases of women going missing in Jalisco are not linked to their domestic and social situations but to crime.
“We don’t know if the disappearances have to do with human trafficking, prostitution or sexual violence. So it’s up to authorities to investigate.”
After Quebec last year, the Gallic flavor of the annual Festival Cultural de Mayo (May Festival) will continue as a host of talented performers are trucked in by invited guest country France.
Having been elected earlier this year, Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla was formally sworn in as rector of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) on April 1.
My article in last week’s Reporter described how the flow of the Lerma River to Lake Chapala had been reduced by 90 percent or more from 1930 to 2001. This was due primarily to a grossly excessive commitment to irrigation in the Lerma River basin, and the construction of over 500 dams and reservoirs that could store the river’s entire flow. Despite 40 years of discussions and hundreds of pages of studies and rules, no solution has been executed. The key factor is this: for each one percent saved of the 80 percent of the river’s flow that is now used for irrigation, it will be possible to provide domestic water for 400,000 persons.
The recently opened southern extension of the Periferico (beltway) that links the Guadalajara-Chapala highway with the northern extremes of Tonala and Guadalajara makes driving to the city’s famed zoo a smooth 65-kilometer, one-hour jaunt from Chapala. I drove the entire road this week and here is my report.
When Adrian D. Griffin arrived in Guadalajara over three years ago, lured away from his position at the University of Texas to play principal trumpet in the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, he had a book project in the works with the prestigious Oxford University Press and, not surprisingly for a Midwest-reared American, spoke only English.