The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Although a week had passed since the Three Kings Day celebration, children at the Nuevo Hospital Civil in Guadalajara received an unexpected but welcome visit from gift-bearing benefactors on Wednesday, January 13.
Guadalajara city hall’s latest move in its no-nonsense approach to local affairs is to outlaw the handing out of fliers (volantes) in the street.
Two incidents on consecutive days suggest that criminals targeting bank customers are prepared to use more aggressive methods.
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is to begin charging homeowners and businesses in the Guadalajara metropolitan area by the month instead of every two months.
Many civic minded citizens rose well before the crack of dawn on Monday, January 4 to stand in line at metro-area tax collection offices to pay their annual bills. Discounts are offered for early payment of municipal and state property, water and vehicle taxes. Above, Tapatios brave the chilly morning weather to wait outside the state tax collection office (recaudadora) in the city center to pay their annual car tax (refrendo).
Citizens are taking the opportunity to voice their dissent in greater numbers than ever before.
Relatives of missing loved ones are demanding that the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) and State Forensic Sciences Institute stop the practice of cremating the bodies of unidentified persons.
The music has stopped in Guadalajara’s once landmark Plaza de los Mariachis, where grown men could hang out with beer and tequila, openly shed tears and sing along to soulful melodies of requited love.
Even though traffic was virtually nonexistent in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara on December 25, the air quality dipped dramatically, mostly provoked by dozens of fires set by celebrants on Christmas Eve, especially in the southern part of the city.
An air quality reading of 162 Imecas (very bad) registered at Las Pintas monitoring station wasn’t helped by a fire at a plastics factory in the Alamo industrial zone. Civil Protection officials report extinguishing around 50 bonfires on the night of December 24, and confiscating 12 kilograms of fireworks, mostly luces de bengala (hand-held flares).
