Landfill scavengers battle cops
State police Monday detained 67 people participating in a demonstration held by pepenadores (garbage dump waste pickers or scavengers) in the center of Guadalajara.
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State police Monday detained 67 people participating in a demonstration held by pepenadores (garbage dump waste pickers or scavengers) in the center of Guadalajara.
For hundreds of mothers whose sons and daughters are missing, May 10 was a difficult day.
Low-cost Canadian carrier Flair Airlines has announced the launch of two new routes to Puerto Vallarta for its winter schedule.
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The annual exhibition of high-quality handicrafts, gifts and decorations from Mexico and Latin America, brings more than 150 top artesanos to the Centro Cultural El Refugio in Tlaquepaque Thursday, May 12, through Monday, May 16.
According to the Agrifood and Fisheries Information Service (SIAP), the recent hike in the price of avocado is due to several factors, including inflation, lower avocado production and a growing demand from the United States, leading to domestic shortages.
Residents of Guadalajara should expect some “significant” isolated downpours this month, although this will not mean the start of the temporada de lluvias (rainy season), which is expected as usual around mid-June, said Claudia Martínez, a meteorologist at the city’s Institute of Astronomy and Meteorology (IAM).
The strategy of police officers making random searches of vehicles for weapons in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, referred to as “volantas” in Spanish, introduced in February, has been a rotund failure, one crime analyst says.
A group of around 200 indigenous Wixárikas (members of the Wixáritari or Huichol people) paused in Guadalajara last week, as they undertook a 30-day march to Mexico City to ask the nation’s president to intervene in a decades-old dispute over territory.
With the aim of emulating the “Tequila Route” and the Valle de Guadalupe Vineyards experience, businesses in Guadalajara and Zapopan have teamed up to launch a new Craft Beer Trail.