The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
After a six-week summer break, around 1.7 million Jalisco primary and secondary school children donned new uniforms and returned to classes as the 2014/15 school year began Monday August 18.
Around 2,000 young people had the time of their lives last Sunday as they unleashed powder paints of multiple colors at the Minerva Fountain during an animated celebration of International Youth Day 2014.
Manuel Gomez Torres, the 74-year-old mayor of Ayutla, Jalisco, was ambushed by unidentified gunmen as he returned to his ranch Sunday along with his bodyguard, identified as José de Jesús Hernández, 60. Both men died at the scene.
Jalisco Attorney General Carlos Najera is loosing patience with his critics in the wake of the arrest of two public servants in connection with the August 3 murder of Ayutla Mayor Manuel Gomez Torres and a municipal employee.
Two investigative state police officers were shot and killed in Tlajomulco after they stopped a tanker (pipa) they believed was carrying stolen Pemex gasoline.
Residents of Guadalajara will be the main sufferers if the Zapotillo Dam in northeast Jalisco is not built to its planned height of 105 meters, the director general of Mexico’s National Water Commission (CNA) said this week.
Waving symbolic flags, Governor Aristoteles Sandoval and other invited dignitaries on Monday initiated the regional operations of the state’s new crack law-enforcement squad, the Fuerza Unica Jalisco.
One out of every four cops in the state of Jalisco has flunked the national police vetting exam, known as control de confianza.
Rosa del Carmen Verduzco, the 79-year-old director of the Gran Familia children’s shelter in Zamora, Michoacan, will not face prosecution over allegations that minors were routinely mistreated at the facility she has operated for more than 50 years.
