The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A creek that burst its banks during a heavy storm Sunday sent a swirling torrent of muddy water and debris through a dozen low-income Zapopan neighborhoods, inundating more than 340 homes.
Despite the disapproval of NGOs such as Amnesty International (AI), the Jalisco state government seems determined to prosecute seven female activists who defaced public property during a recent protest outside the Jalisco Education Department (SEP) headquarters in Guadalajara.
Air quality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area improved in 2020, largely due to the drop in activities caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but has deteriorated this year, monitoring data indicates.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro waves the “starting flag” (banderazo) for work to begin officially on the second runway at Guadalajara’s Miguel Hidalgo International Airport.
For some years now, Guadalajara’s run-down Old (Viejo) Bus Station in the center of the city has been a rather cheerless place of welcome for alighting travelers, including those coming from Chapala and Jocotepec.
On Sunday June 27, coinciding with the appearance of a full moon, a male river hippopotamus was born to mama Tami at the Guadalajara Zoo after an eight-month pregnancy.
Presumably to celebrate the Fourth of July, personnel from the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara hosted an information-laden online presentation geared to U.S. citizens in Jalisco and environs.
In December, 2014, the government of Jalisco acquired surveillance software with the aim of combating kidnapping and organized crime, but the system was actually used for political espionage, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro alleged this week.
The scramble for Covid-19 testing, which had dropped off substantially during April and May, is rising once more in tandem with the infection rates in Jalisco.