“I came here to find healing for my arthritis,” says Valeria, sitting on the pew of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, known as Pare de sufrir, or stop suffering. “I was raised Catholic, but I came to know God in a different way here.”

The ouster of the 2013 Watermelon Seed Spitting Champion of Western Mexico was a highlight of this year’s July Fourth picnic at St. Mark’s Anglican/Episcopal Church in Guadalajara.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval dined with many of Guadalajara’s consular representatives last week, underlining his commitment to “generate certainty” for foreign investors concerned by pubic security, transportation, corruption and regulatory issues.

A 35-year-old woman has died at a residential home doubling as a cosmetic surgery clinic in Tlaquepaque while having a liposuction intervention. Officials say the clinic was unlicensed. The doctor who treated Flores, Oscar Raul Macias Parada, has been detained and the house closed for further investigation. 

The plush Andares mall in Zapopan will soon have a rival right on its doorstep.