General News

End of distance learning for UdG students

The University of Guadalajara will return to 100-percent in person classes in three weeks if the Covid wave continues to fall at the current rate. 

City to get tough on protocol violators

As of this weekend, Guadalajara City hall will start to fine and close businesses that fail to comply with health protocols requiring a vaccination certificate or negative PCR test for entry to bars, clubs, casinos and cultural events.

The Guadalajara metro area municipality of Tlajomulco has received a donation of a fire truck from the city of Montebello, California.

A one-year-old child and a middle-aged man perished in a deadly collision that occurred Sunday, January 16, on the Guadalajara-Morelia highway on the outskirts of the Jocotepec satellite town El Molino.

Has discredited judge disappeared?

Suspended Jalisco Supreme Court magistrate José de Jesús “N,” who is accused of the sexual abuse of a minor, failed to turn up at a court hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 2, at the Puente Grande penitentiary complex.

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our January editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

1972

Nudity on the Mexican stage causes outrage

Disorganized scenes were reported Monday, January 31, as more than 180,000 Tapatios piled onto the 72 electric buses plying the brand new BRT bus line—opened just a day earlier—that uses exclusive lanes on the Guadalajara Periferico (beltway), a service that is known to one and all as the “Peribus.”

Dog Parks in Zapopan

Zapopan City Hall is planning to construct four new dog parks in the municipality, and is seeking input from residents as to where the favored locations might be.