The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Citizens demanding the removal of state police from their towns may have been paid by criminal gangs to stage a protest outside the State Government Palace in Guadalajara Wednesday.
Jalisco Governor Artistoteles Sandoval Diaz and his wife Lorena Jassibe Arriaga, honorary president of the Family Development Agency (DIF), greeted 21 older Jalisco athletes who are part of the Mexican delegation competing in the XXI World Masters Athletics Championships in Lyon, France from August 4 to 16.
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval replaced his transportation secretary this week, giving his new man a single month to put in place measures designed to end corruption in the Secretaria de Movilidad.
The cost of fines imposed for traffic violations is determined under guidelines contained in Section Seven, Chapter II of Jalisco’s Ley de Movilidad y Transporte. The rates are based multiples on the official per diem salario mínimo (minimum wage), currently set at 70.10 pesos for the Guadalajara metro area and 68.28 for other Jalisco municipalities.
“Mexico needs women with balls and senior citizens have this, as well as love for the homeland and respect for themselves.”
Wielding powerful symbols and positive slogans, a large group of demonstrators that included many baby strollers and hand-holding older couples took to the same Guadalajara streets last Saturday afternoon as a gay pride march had followed just a few weeks earlier, but with a markedly different message.
The Jalisco Transportation Department (Semov) has issued more than 5,700 tickets to motorists who have fitted plastic covers (known as micas) over their license plates to avoid them being read by speed cameras.
So far this year, the Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) has reported 48 cases of chikungunya in the state, registered in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, La Huerta, Cuautitlán and Tomatlán.
More than 1.5 million free school backpacks and supply packs will be given away to primary and secondary school students in Jalisco by the end of August.