The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A 19-year-old mother in Guadalajara has been charged with selling her newborn baby to two women strangers and then reporting the child as kidnapped.
The inebriated driver of a car in which seven people died may not serve any jail time because traffic cops delayed two hours in taking a blood sample.
Guadalajara taxi drivers have stepped up their opposition to the emergence of the smartphone app company Uber, which they claim is illegal and threatening their livelihoods. And state authorities seem to be listening.
Members of the Jalisco State Choir ambushed Governor Aristoteles Sandoval following an event last week to ask him why their salaries are always paid late in February.
The state government has consistently failed to pay the singers’ wages on time each February for the past 12 years, say members of the 43-strong chorus.
The governor and his wife had been attending an event at Guadalajara’s Foro de Arte y Cultura, in which the State Choir were involved.
In addition, the delegation of choir members asked the governor to intervene and raise their salaries, currently around 6,000 pesos a month, which they say have been at the same level for 12 years.
Regional milk producers staged an unusual protest by giving and throwing away almost 5,000 liters of the product in Guadalajara Thursday.
Work on the 5.3-kilometer underground tunnel of Guadalajara’s third subway (Tren Ligero) line is slated to later this year. First, a tunnel-boring machine measuring 95x12 meters will be brought in from Valencia, Spain, via Manzanillo. Its transportation is expected to take two months. The machine will cut through the city center’s subsoil at a depth of 30 meters, covering a distance of between five and ten meters a day. The tunnel will be finished by early 2016 at a cost of 2.7 billion pesos – around 15 percent of the project’s total budget of 17 billion pesos. The same boring machine was used to construct a tunnel in Barcelona for Spain’s high-speed AVE rail network. This tunnel passed close to Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia basilica. A similar situation faces engineers in Guadalajara, as Linea Tres will pass almost directly beneath the Metropolitan Cathedral.
The underground section of the subway line takes up one-quarter of its 21.45-kilometer length. The tunnel will run from La Normal Glorieta, under avenidas Alcalde, 16 de septiembre and Revolucion, to Plaza de la Bandera. The five below-ground stations will be La Normal, Santuario, Catedral, Independencia and Plaza de la Bandera. Line Three will run diagonally across the city from the center of Zapopan to the bus station in Tonala.
The reign of Kenya has finally ended. Mexican runner Juan Luis Barrios Nieves won Guadalajara’s 24th International Half Marathon on Sunday, beating Kenyan runner Julius Kipyego, who has won the race for the past six years.
An 88-year-old woman died after being struck by a subway (Tren Ligero) train on Line One of Guadalajara’s network Wednesday. A spokesman for the city Fire Department said the woman had decided not to use the pedestrian footbridge and take her chances crossing the tracks by the Santa Filomena station. The driver of the train appeared not to realize that he had struck anyone and continued his journey. The line was closed for two hours before reopening.
Maintaining his promise to make public service more transparent and accountable, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval last week inaugurated an “electronic kiosk” where the general public can directly access information pertaining to state government finances.
