General News

The posada season of December 2013 will be one that 52-year-old mariachi violinist José Armando Gomez Espinoza will never forget.

Guadalajara municipal police officers stacked their patrol cars with dozens of mutli-colored plastic balls Monday, December 23.

Despite the inclement climate, some 200 people staged a protest over the holiday condemning the recent one-peso hike in city bus fares. The protestors unfurled this banner pointing out that someone earning a minimum wage will pay 20 percent of his/her earnings on a mere two buses a day.

Tapatios taking bus rides on Sunday had to dig deeper into their pockets after the Jalisco state government reacted quickly to ratify a Fares Commission (Comision de Tarifas) directive to raise Guadalajara bus fares from six to seven pesos.

On taking office last year, the new Guadalajara municipal administration vowed to rein in the dozens of unlicensed street vendors who set up stall in the downtown zone on a daily basis.

A group of academics at the University of Guadalajara (UdG) have banded together on a project that aims to pressure the state government to address the issue of radiation from cellular phones and related equipment, such as towers, routers, laptops, and tablets. 

It is not difficult to fathom why the number of bank robberies in Jalisco skyrocketed from 58 in 2012 to 138 last year.

There is nothing more satisfying than an anniversary well celebrated and we are rightly proud on the occasion of our 50th birthday.