General News

Metro-area Guadalajara and Colima have joined the list of cities in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) program that is dedicated to helping urban centers around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.

A state legislator from the Citizen’s Movement has submitted a proposal that would effectively prohibit gated communities (cotos) in Jalisco, and open up many of their streets and avenues to general traffic.

Jorge Vergara, the owner of the Guadalajara Chivas, Mexico’s most popular soccer team, has ended a 22-year relationship with the nation’s largest broadcaster and announced that he will be creating his own television channel to show his team’s live games and offer other club-related content.

Following a raid by Jalisco state police and state social welfare officials, 271 people – including 112 minors – with drug addiction, alcoholism  and other behavioral problems have been removed from a rehabilitation shelter in Tonala.

More than 100 moms staged a sit-in at the plush Galerias mall in Guadalajara to protest the discrimination mothers frequently suffer when they breastfeed their babies in public.

Travelers on Guadalajara’s Tren Ligero (subway) network are now able to travel on the trains with their bicycles on weekdays and Saturdays – albeit only at certain hours of the day – and also leave them padlocked at cycle ports recently installed at all the stations.

Gay rights activists in Guadalajara participate in an after-dark, silent march on International Day Against Homophobia (Tuesday) to remember those who have been murdered in hate crimes committed against the LGBT community in Mexico.  Earlier in the day, a small protest was held outside the Jalisco Congress to draw attention to the absence of legislation regarding hate crimes.

Owners of Guadalajara’s 180 “luxury” city buses have been told to lower their fares from 12 to seven pesos for the next two months because they do not provide the services advertised. The “de lujo” buses operate on five routes throughout the metropolitan area.

Luxury buses are obliged to offer air conditioning, televisions and soft seating, and are prohibited from taking on standing passengers.   
Within the next 60 days, each company will have to demonstrate that 100 percent of the buses on their route offer the advertised services before they will again be able to charge 12 pesos.