Metro area needs more churches, archbishop says
There are insufficient Catholic churches to serve the faithful in the burgeoning suburbs of metro area Guadalajara, according to Cardinal Francisco Robles, the city’s archbishop.
There are insufficient Catholic churches to serve the faithful in the burgeoning suburbs of metro area Guadalajara, according to Cardinal Francisco Robles, the city’s archbishop.
Animal rights groups say the time has come to end the tradition of horse-drawn calandrias (carriages) that take tourists around the streets of downtown Guadalajara.
The Tlajomulco municipal government has cleared the way for work to resume on the 110-kilometer “macrolibramiento,” the ambitious outer city beltway planned to run in a semi-circle to the south of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
A group of unidentified Guadalajara municipal police officers say they will work “under protest” from June 4 because the city’s mayor and police chief have failed to listen to their gripes.
Zapopan Mayor Hector Robles has fired his chief of police in a bid to “reinforce security strategies” in the metro area municipality.
After seizing hundreds of stolen car parts in a raid this week, Jalisco’s Fiscalia General is asking citizens to come in and identify them.
Police have arrested four members of a local drug cartel in connection with the slaying of Jalisco Tourism Secretary Jose de Jesus Gallegos Alvarez on March 9.
Checking in for most flights at the Guadalajara Airport should be quicker thanks to newly installed x-ray machines that have replaced manual luggage checks.
Four inebriated men armed with machetes attacked a group of 22 young campers enjoying an overnight sleep out in the area of rock formations known as El Diente, located to the north of Guadalajara in the municipality of Zapopan.
The campers were aged between 6 and 16 and members of the Dragon Brigade. They were accompanied by three adults and were preparing for a rappelling course the following day.