The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
An unusual exhibit is touring Jalisco schools in a bid to teach children about Guachimontones, the pre-Hispanic archaeological site consisting of curious “round pyramids” located about an hour west of Guadalajara in Teuchitlan.
A heavily armed commando under the orders of a drug cartel ambushed a convoy of state police pick-ups Monday afternoon near the village of Soyatan on the Mascota-Puerto Vallarta highway, causing the deaths of 15 officers – 14 men and one woman.
According to State Public Security Commissioner Alejandro Solorio, “a significant number of assailants” blocked the path of the convoy before surrounding the police officers and firing on them with high-calibre weapons.
The University of Guadalajara is providing training to municipal authorities to enter into the national Mexico Conectado initiative, whose aim is to offer universal free internet access within the next three years.
Jalisco currently has 125 public spaces with free internet access but the state government wants to increase this to 12,000 points.
Administration, Planning and Finance Secretary Hector Perez Partida called the initiative “very important for the state,” in terms of economic development.
The University of Guadalajara has opened four new training centers. Municipal officials will be able to register suggested sites for the new program, which will include hospitals, schools, government buildings and other public spaces.
In 2014, 65,000 public sites were connected throughout the country. An additional 100,000 are planned this year.
A heavily armed commando under the orders of a drug cartel ambushed a convoy of state police pick-ups Monday afternoon near the village of Soyatan on the Mascota-Puerto Vallarta highway, causing the deaths of 15 officers – 14 men and one woman.
Complex legal battles stemming from a land dispute between the Indigenous Community of Mezcala de la Asuncion on the shores of Lake Chapala and a Guadalajara businessman are heating up again after years of foundering in the Mexican court system.
Five police officers who were killed in a confrontation with heavily armed gunmen in Ocotlan on Thursday, March 19 were members of the Gendarmería convoy platoon that has been assigned to carry out routine patrols in the Chapala area since early February.
The NGO World Animal Protection has been working with the University of Guadalajara to create an action plan designed to protect animals in case of a possible major eruption of the Colima Volcano.
