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Guadalajara sets yet another Guinness record

Guadalajara has a passion for breaking Guinness records (the biggest tequila bottle in the world, the most mariachis playing together, the most couples kissing at once), and this year’s International Mariachi Festival offered another opportunity.


Metro News Briefs

Chocolate thief nabbed

Ruben Dario Jimenez has a weakness for chocolate that has put him behind bars for the fourth time this year. The 45-year old chocoholic from Colonia Loma Dorado in Tonala was detained by private security guards as he pilfered a chocolate bar on September 9. He had been arrested once late last year and again July 7 and August 4.

Green city buses shape of things to come?

It’s been a long time coming but new ‘ecological’ buses are gradually being introduced onto Guadalajara’s streets. State authorities hope it won’t be long before they become the norm rather than the exception. The buses, which are running on various routes, including 51A and 51B, 371, 633 and 368, each cost 1.2 million pesos (91,000 dollars). Currently, 290 of the green-painted buses are in operation, 50 of them powered by natural gas. Owners and drivers, however, are pushing for fare increases on routes using the new buses.

We can see you! Zapopan catches surveillance bug

Zapopan has become one of Mexico’s most keenly scrutinized municipalities after 200 new surveillance cameras went into operation last week.

More than 40 employees will spend their days and nights checking screens for wrongdoers at the city’s new Centro de Monitoreo y Videovigilancia (Monitoring and Vigilance Center), that was also inaugurated last week.

‘Mi Bici’ project to use sturdy Canadian bikes

One of the robust bikes that will be used in Guadalajara’s forthcoming public bicycle sharing program was put on show for the benefit of journalists and photographers this week. 

Costing 1,200 Canadian dollars (15,000 pesos) each, the bikes are set to become a common feature around the city next year, when the program is up and running.