The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Although officials from the Donald Trump administration stress that new immigration enforcement policies in the United States will not translate into “mass deportations” of undocumented citizens, various institutions in the state of Jalisco are making preparations for a large influx of migrants.
What started out as a normal work day for several Zapopan garbage collectors turned into a bizarre and unsettling experience.
In the town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, state and federal police are the objects of rage as citizens demonstrate over the imprisonment and alleged torture of a security guard, Antonio Luna, whom authorities have accused of killing his three young sons, ages 4, 8 and 11, in a January 14 late night shootout involving police. Authorities also allege that on the same occasion Luna tried to kill his wife.
The Interpretative Museum at the Guachimontones archaeological site will mark its fifth anniversary with a congress/seminar on Friday, February 24. Among speakers will be Reporter columnist John Pint (from 10 a.m.), as well as archaeologists Joseph Mountjoy and Rodrigo Esparza.
Governor Aristoteles Sandoval says Jalisco needs to look further afield than the United States to rid this state of its economic “dependency” on its northern neighbor.
Governor Aristoteles Sandoval is urging tech firms in the United States that may be affected by new immigration restrictions on skilled foreign workers to consider Jalisco as an alternative.
It’s no wonder Jalisco is so keen to grab a slice of the U.S. avocado market that neighbors Michoacan currently monopolizes. Americans are loco for the fruit – especially when Super Bowl time comes around.
The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) will create a special prosecutor’s office that will focus on cases of missing persons in the state.
The first shipments of avocados sent from Jalisco to the United States in more than 100 years were unable to cross the border last week and Mexico’s federal government is being blamed for the fiasco.
