Labor Day protest takes aim at reforms
Workers from several independent unions take advantage of Guadalajara’s traditional Labor Day parade to express their anger at the slew of reforms enacted over the past 18 months.
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Workers from several independent unions take advantage of Guadalajara’s traditional Labor Day parade to express their anger at the slew of reforms enacted over the past 18 months.
A network of employees at the Jalisco delegation of the National Immigration Institute (INM) has been colluding with criminals in other countries to bring foreigners into Mexico and provide them with phony documentation that allowed them to live in the country as legal residents, the agency’s director Ricardo Vera Lira revealed this week.
Several new murals appeared this week in Guadalajara in memory of the sewer line explosions 22 years ago that killed more than 200 people. Services were held and the state government vowed to maintain its support of victims of the tragedy.
Chapultepec near done
Construction work on Guadalajara’s ritzy Avenida Chapultepec is nearly finished but businesses and residents in the area have complained that the thoroughfare is now as much as 20 centimeters above its previous height.
When it comes to the issue of Internet freedoms, it’s best not to mess with the youth of the world.
Mexico’s Communications and Transport Secretary Pablo Suarez Coello has promised that the Mexico City-Queretaro high-speed passenger train line will be extended on to Guadalajara at a later date.
There’s depressing news for those hoping crime might be dropping under Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Thieves hanging around banks listen to the sound of banknote counting machines to identify targets, police warned this week after arresting a man they believe is responsible for at least a dozen assaults on customers.
The metropolitan area of Guadalajara is well endowed with cultural spaces but more are on the horizon.