The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A scene straight out of a TV crime show unfolded in Zapopan last week, involving two armed thieves in a Toyota Corolla and Zapopan Police, who used their Halcon helicopter to aid squad cars to foil carjackers.
One out of every five tapatios has been a victim of crime in the last year, according to a recent study. In addition, a national survey on public security found that only one out of 1,300 criminal cases are resolved in favor of the victims of crime in this state.
If all the laws currently on the books in Mexico were effectively enforced, the nation would resemble something akin to a utopia. But too often, the enforcement capacity of federal, state and municipal governments is ham-strung by powerful forces, often of an economic and/or cultural nature.
Judging by recent berry exports to China, Dubai, Kuwait and other markets hungry for Mexican-grown fruits, Jalisco is more than pulling its weight in lessening Mexico’s dependence on exports to the United States.
If you’re involved in a car accident while using your cell phone, you could end up serving jail time. Sentences could be between 3-10 years if the accident resulted in death or serious injury.
According to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, at least seven women are killed each day in Mexico — a shocking statistic that María Guadalupe Ramos Ponce is determined to change.
Introduced in Jalisco last year, Mexico’s new justice system, modeled on the United States and other western nations, was supposed to bring a breath of fresh air to an outdated – and often corrupt – judicial process, offering increased transparency and more legal guarantees for defendants.
Tuesday, June 13, some 30 residents from the Poncitlan villages of Agua Caliente, San Pedro Itzicán, Santa María, Chalpicote and la Zapotera demonstrated outside the Governor’s offices in Guadalajara, demanding a new artesian well be drilled so they could stop using contaminated water, which is being blamed for a host of diseases plaguing their communities.
The metro-area municipality of Tlajomulco has launched a new garbage collection program, putting down an environmental marker ahead of wealthier neighbors Guadalajara and Zapopan, both of which still dump all kinds of waste into the same trucks.
