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Web of corruption unearthed at Jalisco Immigration

A network of employees at the Jalisco delegation of the National Immigration Institute (INM) has been colluding with criminals in other countries to bring foreigners into Mexico and provide them with phony documentation that allowed them to live in the country as legal residents, the agency’s director Ricardo Vera Lira revealed this week.


Local news briefs

Chapultepec near done

Construction work on Guadalajara’s ritzy Avenida Chapultepec is nearly finished but businesses and residents in the area have complained that the thoroughfare is now as much as 20 centimeters above its previous height.

Bullet train to Guadalajara?

Mexico’s Communications and Transport Secretary Pablo Suarez Coello has promised that the Mexico City-Queretaro high-speed passenger train line will be extended on to Guadalajara at a later date.

Assaults on bank customers on the rise

Thieves hanging around banks listen to the sound of banknote counting machines to identify targets, police warned this week after arresting a man they believe is responsible for at least a dozen assaults on customers.

April 22, 1992 remembered

Several new murals appeared this week in Guadalajara in memory of the sewer line explosions 22 years ago that killed more than 200 people.  Services were held and the state government vowed to maintain its support of victims of the tragedy.

 

First drunk drivers banned from road

After failing breathalyzer tests for the second time in the space of a few months, two intoxicated drivers have became the first Tapatios to have their licenses revoked under new traffic regulations that came into force last November. The pair were banned from driving for two years.