Homicides increase by 16 percent in metropolitan area
The nine municipalities that make up the Guadalajara metropolitan area (ZMG) registered a 16-percent increase in the number of homicides committed in 2017.
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The nine municipalities that make up the Guadalajara metropolitan area (ZMG) registered a 16-percent increase in the number of homicides committed in 2017.
The early months of 2017 will see work crews putting in many extra shifts as a push is made to finish Guadalajara’s third Tren Ligero (subway) line by its scheduled deadline at the end of March.
An academic from the Pan American University has been chosen as Jalisco’s new anti-corruption “tzar.”
The driver of a truck laden with gravel got the shock of his life this week when his vehicle suddenly began to disappear into the ground as he drove along a city street.
An explosion rocked a housing development in northwest Zapopan, Friday, December 22, resulting in 14 people injured. No deaths have been reported.
The center lanes of a long stretch of Avenida Lopez Mateos, the vital thoroughfare running diagonally southwest to northeast from the southern periferico to Glorieta Colon, are currently a morass of construction as they undergo repaving.
Even though thousands of Tapatios get in their cars and head for the beach over the Christmas holiday, there was to be no respite for the abused lungs of city folk.
The next Thursday lunch at the American Society (Amsoc) won’t be until January 11.
Judging from a spate of recent initiatives, a concerted effort is being made by city and state authorities to shift the gender equation of Guadalajara and Jalisco’s transportation and law enforcement sectors away from where they are now: almost exclusively dominated by men.