The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The federal government won’t allocate new funding for the controversial Zapotillo Dam in northeastern Jalisco until agreements have been reached between the federal government, Jalisco and Guanajuato authorities and the local community that will be affected by the project, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced this week.
Mayors from the metro-area municipalities of Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tonala and Tlajomulco (along with a representative from Tlaquepaque) hold up an agreement they signed Tuesday with México Evalúa to halt the increasing number of intentional homicides in the city.
A demonstration against last week’s 36-percent increase in city bus and light train fares got out of hand last Friday, resulting in several arrests amid accusations of excessive use of force by police officers.
The suspected founder of the powerful Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG) oddly walked free in 2018 despite having received a long sentence for drug-trafficking related offenses.
Plans for establishing a Chapala office for issuing Jalisco driving permits have been delayed indefinitely.
Hailstorms turned parts of Guadalajara into a winter wonderland last Sunday, blanketing several Zapopan neighborhoods in sheets of ice.
Jalisco and the federal government have signed an agreement to start work on the initial phase of a fourth Tren Ligero (light train or subway) line in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
Agents from the Fiscalía de Jalisco (State Attorney General’s Office or FGE) arrested former state Education Secretary Antonio Gloria Morales Tuesday for his “probable responsibility” in a fraudulent property deal.
Agents from the Jalisco Traffic Police stopped a would-be auto thief in his tracks as he attempted to make a getaway Tuesday, July 23, shortly after presumably stealing a late-model Nissan pickup on Calle Juárez in downtown Chapala.
