Food prices soar & hit pocketbooks
It could be argued that the tomato (jitomate) and the onion (cebolla) are the most used vegetables in the Mexican kitchen (okay, botanically tomatoes are fruits!).
It could be argued that the tomato (jitomate) and the onion (cebolla) are the most used vegetables in the Mexican kitchen (okay, botanically tomatoes are fruits!).
Few artifacts in the world have stirred the imagination or provoked as much controversy as the Shroud of Turin.
Around 200 drivers from the Uber online ride-sharing platform were joined by others from rival firm Didi at a protest this week held outside the Uber offices on Guadalajara’s Avenida Plan de San Luis.
Jalisco’s Transportation Department (Setrans) this week launched the first stage of its program to eliminate “mototaxis”—the three-wheel auto rickshaws that are used for short-distance journeys in metro Guadalajara’s outer suburbs that are poorly served by the public transport network.
The Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo Church and its jailed leader, Naasón Joaquín García, is under investigation by the New York Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office for money laundering and possible cases of human trafficking, according to a report in the Mexican daily Milenio.
Jalisco’s vehicle emissions inspection program, known as Verificación Responsable, has finished its first annual cycle and started its second year of operation.
CFE receipt change
In keeping with environmental trends, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has announced that it will stop printing electricity bills for certain users in Mexico.
A senior police officer murdered in a Guadalajara neighborhood on January 18 was the 134th homicide of a public security or armed forces official registered in Jalisco during the current administration of Governor Enrique Alfaro, which began in December 2018.
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