Man electrocuted
A man died after being electrocuted outside the Kentucky Fried Chicken on the corner of Avenidas Patria and Rio Nilo in Tonala, after he touched a downed power line.
The man was hit with 20,000 volts of electricity and began to burn. Workers at a nearby gas station put out the flames with an extinguisher before city authorities arrived.
Trees planted in GDL
Some 22,000 trees are being planted in public areas of Zapopan and Guadalajara to help combat air pollution, as part of the new sister-city agreement between the two metro zone municipalities. Among them are clavellinas, which are found in Chapala and the Rio Santiago canyon and will reach up to 30 meters when full grown.
Jamay celebrates
Jamay, located on the eastern shore of Lake Chapala, is celebrating its traditions this week through Sunday, June 19, with traditional old-style mariachi and birria de pescado (fish birria) as part of the town’s gastronomic festival. Twelve local restaurants are participating in the festival.
Bus crash near Tequila
Two dead and 20 injured was the gruesome tally of a bus crash near Tequila on the Tepic-Guadalajara toll road early Thursday morning. Surviving passengers said they think the bus driver fell asleep at the wheel. All the passengers were merchants from Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, headed for a shopping trip to San Juan de Dios market in Guadalajara.
‘Rabbit’ robberies
A day after a woman was robbed at gunpoint of 300,000 pesos she had just withdrawn from a bank in Tonala on the eastern side of the metropolitan area, a man was relieved of 321,000 pesos in Calle Justo Corro in Guadalajara. Reports said the man was cornered by two men in a compact vehicle and one on a motorcycle, the latter of whom fired a shot into the air when the victim at first refused to hand over the cash. These kinds of robberies, called robos conojeros in Spanish, are becoming more and more commonplace, and have prompted law enforcement to advise citizens not to withdraw large sums of cash from banks, warning that networks of criminals—potentially working in cohorts with bank employees—are constantly monitoring potential targets.