The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Metro-area Guadalajara’s “luxury” buses, which cost 12 pesos instead of the regular seven, are nothing more than a rip-off, many passengers are complaining.
Guadalajara city hall is checking out suppliers of tricycles and/or carts that registered ambulant vendors will have to use in the city center. The vendors will be loaned the conveyances and will not be obliged to pay for them.
The Christmas buzz gripped the Guadalajara city center this week as the traditional lights were turned on and several associated seasonal attractions opened to the public.
Almost 400 Jalisco traffic cops were subjected to an unannounced breathalyzer test this week. The exams were carried out by a team from the nighttime “Torito” patrols to detect drunk drivers. The officers were surprised to learn they were to be tested after turning up for work on Monday morning at 6:30 a.m. The tests were carried out en masse soon after the officers had given the traditional weekly salute to the Mexican flag.
Gigamon Inc., a market leader in security and traffic visibility solutions, this week opened a new components plant in Zapopan’s Technology Park.
Jalisco State congressman Augusto Valencia Lopez believes motorcycle bandits are getting away with their crimes far too easily and says transit authorities must enforce laws that require all motorcyclists to wear reflective waistcoats.
A man who ran information security and ethical hacking courses out of Guadalajara has been shot to death in the city’s Colonia Moderna.
A wave of independent candidates have shaken up Mexican politics this year, raising the prospect that the nation could elect its first ever independent president in 2018. This was the hot topic among Mexico’s most prominent independent politicians on the opening day of Guadalajara’s 2015 International Book Fair (FIL).
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has highlighted his administration’s efforts to thwart deforestation and environmental deterioration in this state at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21).
