The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
GENDER VIOLENCE CALLS INCREASE – This past year in Jalisco, the number of gender violence-related 911 calls increased 25 percent on 2017 – 13,336 compared to 10,700, according to the National Secretariat of Public Security.
An attempted robbery in Zapopan’s Ciudadela Mall (Patria and Moctezuma) resulted in a gun-related death on January 30.
Confirmed dengue cases in Jalisco quintupled in 2018 compared with 2017, according to the Epidemiology Department of the Jalisco Health Secretariat (SSJ).
Armando Brénez Moreno, president of Jalisco’s College of Civil Engineers, recently requested more federal funds to complete Guadalajara’s unfinished third Tren Ligero (subway) line.
The state government has confirmed that the Instituto Jalisciense de la Mujer (Jalisco Institute for Women of IJM) will be incorporated into a new agency with more teeth, able to deal with a wider range of gender issues thanks to a bigger budget.
Women protest at the Minerva Glorieta Thursday over federal cuts that could see the closure of 50 percent of day care centers subsidized by the new Secretaría del Bienestar (formerly Sedesol).
Christine Walker, who was the “story lady” at Sandi Bookstore before it closed last year, will reopen her popular story and song time in English for young children at the American Society (Amsoc) on the last Saturday of each month.
Businesses and industries in Jalisco are loosing between 200 and 250 million pesos a day as a result of the gasoline shortage, according to Daniel Curiel, the president of the state’s Council of Industrial Chambers.
Filling up one’s tank with precious gasoline isn’t the only reason to wait in line this January.
