General News

Only 11 percent of all calls made to the 911 emergency number in the first six months of 2017 were actual pleas for assistance. The rest were either hoax calls, or citizens without emergencies.

Guadalajara Police Chief Salvador Caro has been the target of criticism amid allegations that two municipal police officers who were shot to death last week during a robbery at a medical laboratory were unfit for duty and should never have been on the streets.

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

The opening of the second section of the Macrolibramiento (outer Guadalajara ring road) has been postponed for one month “for climatic reasons.”

Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro has justified the cost of a public sculpture commissioned to Joe Fors, one of the city’s foremost artists, and an accomplished musician to boot.

An on-duty carriage horse dropped dead Sunday evening at the corner of Calzada Independencia and Prisciliano Sanchez, potentially putting the nail in the coffin, so to speak, of the city center’s horse-drawn carriage tradition (calandrias) — at least symbolically. 

Readers of the Reporter have surely noticed my occasional jibes against sources of irritating noise in Mexico: loud neighbors, salones de eventos, balnearios, leaf blowers, all-terrain vehicles – the list is long.

FIL INVITEE – Portugal will be the invited country at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in 2018, it was announced this week.