The Guadalajara Reporter
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A rodada (critical mass) comprised entirely of female cyclists from various civic organizations took to city streets on the evening of February 6 to draw attention to growing number of femicides in Jalisco.
Jalisco’s obligatory vehicle emissions testing program (verificacion vehicular) has been suspended pending a major restructuring initiative.
The Jalisco State Congress this week voted to disband the Instituto Jalisciense de Asistencia Social (IJAS), the government agency that for many decades has been charged with certifying and regulating all asociaciones civiles (ACs or non-profits) in the state.
A new set of fines for transporting a child on a motorcycle has been approved by the Jalisco State Congress.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s new pension plan for senior citizens debuted in Jalisco January 27.
Climate change is certainly a real phenomenon as far as the European Union and the Jalisco State government are concerned.
One of the Jalisco’s grandest religious festivals (rivaling that of the Virgin of Zapopan in fervor but not in size) occurs February 2 — the festival of the Virgen de la Candelaria, celebrated in many places, throughout Jalisco (Acatic, El Arenal, El Cabezon, Encarnacion de Diaz, Guachinango), but no place like San Juan de los Lagos (250 kilometers northeast of Guadalajara) in the Los Altos region of the state.
Inbound traffic on a stretch of the Guadalajara-Ocotlán highway running through the outskirts of Ixtalhuacán de los Membrillos was detoured on the afternoon of Sunday, January 27 due to a heavy blanket of smoke caused by a brush fire that broke out on adjacent land.
After weeks of playing her cards close to her chest, the state’s new culture secretary, Giovana Jaspersen, held a surprise press conference with Wednesday to introduce the newly selected artistic director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco (OFJ), Monterrey-born Jésus Medina Villarreal, who in December guest-directed the OFJ and the Jalisco Ballet in Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker.”
