The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Giving his 2015 state-of-the-state address (informe) Sunday, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval bragged about his administration’s transparency and cost-cutting policies that have permitted greater funds to be channelled to education, health initiatives and combatting poverty.
Guadalajara’s new Centro de Justicia para las Mujeres (Justice Center for Women) is the first of its kind in Jalisco that not only provides assistance and support for women who have been the victims of violence, but also houses a courtroom in which cases can be heard and judged speedily.
A series of accusations, ranging from cocaine possession to fraud, have been made against a Jalisco politician who hopes to be the next mayor of El Salto.
Jalisco health officials say the concerted vaccination campaign at the end of November and beginning of December is responsible for the dramatic drop in the number of influenza cases reported in the state this season.
The Jalisco Health Department had registered 59 cases up until the start of this week, compared to 380 for the same period in the 2013-14 flu season.
State health authorities aquired two million doses to fight this winter’s flu strains – 800,000 more than last year.
Demonstrators in central Guadalajara were encouraging people not to vote in the 2015 elections. Protestors gathered on the corner of Calzada Independencia and Avenida Juarez on Wednesday, February 4, to call for a boycott of the political process. The movement is a response to the disappearance of 43 student protestors in Guerrero last September.
The public is welcome to enjoy a pancake supper at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Guadalajara to celebrate Shrove Tuesday on February 17 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The meal will be prepared by the men of the parish and includes bacon, beverages and more. The cost is 50 pesos, payable at the door.
Jorge Alberto Arizpe Garcia, the Operations Commandant for the Jalisco division of Mexico’s Federal Police, will appear at the Lake Chapala Society on Thursday, February 12, 1 p.m., for an open public presentation focusing on safe travel in the state and surrounding areas. He will offer suggestions on preferable travel routes to various destinations and single out locations to be avoided. The talk will also touch on the history of the Federal Police and their current role in providing safety and enforcement activities in the region.
Arizpe will also be accompanied by Fernanda Cerda Vera, also from the Federal Police, who will alert the community to prevalent scams that have been detected in Jalisco. Among the most notorious incidents are telephone extortion ploys in which a purported relative calls the victim, asking for money to get out of some terrible situation. She will explain how to recognize and protect yourself from these cons.
Everyone is welcome to attend the event and learn more about these timely topics.
When Dr. Phli Wegand started making some noise about an important Western Mexican civilization in and around Etzatlan, Jalisco five decades ago, locals started digging up the earth as if it was gold. Clay figures that they found are now selling on ebay fetching hundreds of dollars.
Eleven years after its scheduled inauguration, the giant Martyrs’ Sanctuary in southern Guadalajara finally has a roof.
A spokesman for the archdiocese of Guadalajara announced that the building is now almost completely covered.
The ambitious project to construct Mexico’s largest religious edifice has been slowly progressing thanks to private donations. The project costs an estimated 2 billion pesos ($US68 million).
The building is set to honor Mexico’s 25 Catholic martyrs of the Cristero War of the 1920’s. The idea is to seat 12,000 people in the church with the atrium able to accommodate a further 50,000.
