Using whistles to prevent crime
Fed up with the recent spate of muggings, burglaries and the theft of vehicles and auto parts in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana, residents have devised their own security system to keep crime down.
Fed up with the recent spate of muggings, burglaries and the theft of vehicles and auto parts in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana, residents have devised their own security system to keep crime down.
Municipal authorities are planning to repopulate downtown Guadalajara by easing restrictions and utilizing vacant properties.
Members of the opposition Citizen’s Movement (MC) have called for Guadalajara’s Plaza de Toros Nuevo Progreso to stop allowing children to watch bullfights.
The municipal governments across the Guadalajara metropolitan area are working to prevent young people from being drawn to a life of crime in the many street gangs that plague the city.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening, the Guadalajara Zoo has launched a new ride which provides visitors with a bird’s-eye view of many of its most exotic animals.
For the fifth consecutive year, Japanese probiotic drinks company Yakult will donate one cent for every product bought in Mexico during March and April to the Foundation for Civil Hospitals in Guadalajara.
“Clandestine Childhood,” a tale of lost innocence set during the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970s, won the top prize for Iberoamerican fiction at Guadalajara’s 28th International Film Festival (FICG), which closed on Saturday.
The prospect of going to church seven times next Thursday may not appeal to everyone. Yet that is exactly what thousands of Tapatios do on Maunday Thursday (or Holy Thursday) of Holy Week each year. The “Visit to the Seven Churches” is a Catholic tradition that dates back to medieval Spain.
With the arrival of Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval, stricter rules for visitors are being enforced at the Palacio de Gobierno in downtown Guadalajara.