Guadalajara public flies the flag for Uber
As more reports surfaced this week of confrontations between yellow cab drivers and their Uber rivals, the general public is taking to the streets to have a say.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As more reports surfaced this week of confrontations between yellow cab drivers and their Uber rivals, the general public is taking to the streets to have a say.
Around 50 Guadalajara-based press photographers and photojournalists gathered in the city’s Parque Revolucion to express their dismay at the brutal murder of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and four women in Mexico City last week.
Yellow cab drivers blocked Guadalajara streets for the second time in two weeks on Monday after learning that the Jalisco state government has tentatively agreed to “regularize” radio taxi firms and, possibly, provide permits to drivers of the polemic Uber cars.
Three wide Lowboy tractor-trailers carrying Spanish-made parts of the massive drill that will bore under downtown Guadalajara streets for Line Three of the city’s subway system backlogged traffic late Tuesday night following a long drive from Manzanillo, Colima.
In what on the surface appears to be a case of road rage, a motorcyclist was shot to death in the Colinas de Atemajac neighborhood of Zapopan on Monday, July 20.
Jalisco Governor Aristotles Sandoval has promised to provide financial support and new infrastructure to an organization that assists Central American migrants passing through the Guadalajara metro area.
The pothole plague is testing Guadalajara and Zapopan work crews to the limit, but it’s a war they cannot win, experts say.
Federal police are patting themselves on the back after securing two large drug hauls in the municipality of Tlajomulco in recent days.
Imagine driving in fierce rains when the street in front of you opens up and disappears. That’s what happened during a rainstorm on Calle Juan Alvarez in the early hours of Monday.

The socavon (sinkhole) in the Santuario neighborhood, not far from the Federal Palace, measures six by six meters and is three meters deep. The collapse also exposed the sewage drain running under the street.