The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
State police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting of a U.S. consular official at a Guadalajara shopping mall on Friday. The Fiscalía General de Jalisco (State Attorney General’s Office, FGE) sent out a tweet just before 10 a.m. Sunday announcing the detention of the alleged agressor, who was later named by media sources as Zafar Zia, 31.
A consular officer from the U.S. Consulate General is in “stable condition” in hospital after being shot in the chest Friday afternoon in Guadalajara.
Some readers may feel that 2016 was a year that should be quickly dispatched into the distant memory banks.
As a result of January 1 increases in the cost of gasoline, online taxi service Uber will raise its prices in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, the company announced Thursday in a press release.
Assaulting bank clients who have just made large withdrawals has become one of the most popular crimes in metro-area Guadalajara this year.
Upgrades at three municipal Cruz Verde (Green Cross) facilities in the metropolitan area will offer thousands of citizens improved access to low-cost emergency medical services.
As of next year, traffic cops will have the power to tow vehicles that are not displaying a current emissions check (verificacion vehicular) sticker.
Mexican citizens angered at the hefty January 1 increases in the price of gasoline staged multiple demonstrations in both Guadalajara and Chapala this week, with police in the state capital using tear gas to disperse one group of protestors outside the San Juan de Dios Market Monday.
The city’s third Fresko supermarket has opened in the new Espacio Galerias located on Rafael Sanzio, two blocks from the intersection with Avenida Guadalupe.
