The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Desperate relatives of hundreds of Jalisco citizens who have disappeared without a trace delivered a letter to the state governor Wednesday demanding the Attorney General’s Office step up its investigations into the missing persons.
The director of the state-run Puente Grande penitentiary outside Guadalajara is at a loss to explain how prison guards were unable to prevent an inmate killing his wife, their two children and his stepdaughter during a family visit last Sunday.
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras – unofficially the oldest person who has ever lived – died on March 19 at the age of 127 in Zapopan.
Twenty-one local NGOs dedicated to creating a safe urban environment that gives equal priority to the rights and needs pedestrians and cyclists delivered an ultimatum to Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval Wednesday at the Palacio de Gobierno.
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.
One of the founders and acknowledged leaders of Guadalajara’s mass nocturnal bicycle rides has died in a cycling accident.
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.
The Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), the private Jesuit university in the Tlaquepaque suburb of Guadalajara, has heavily criticized Zapopan police officers who entered the campus grounds Tuesday to arrest a student they suspected of stealing a laptop computer from a van parked nearby.
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.
