Last Friday’s disturbances in Guadalajara fueled rumors that Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, had finally been caught. While such speculation proved unfounded, authorities did come within a whisker of capturing the billionaire fugitive in Los Cabos recently.

A fantastic new facility in Tlajomulco will enrich the lives of hundreds of children in two of the municipality’s most deprived neighborhoods.

At the Guadalajara Film Festival’s opening gala, Mayahuel awards were presented to Gabriel Retes, Andy Garcia and English director Mike Leigh.

A idealistic, red-haired, Chilean-born photographer who has lived in or visited a dizzying number of places, from Nice, France, to New York, is opening a show at Casa Escorza in central Guadalajara. Appropriately enough, considering Emiliano Thibaut’s peripatetic life, this collection of 19 medium- and large-format photos focus on New York City, specifically its down-and-out population.

Culturally vibrant, very centrally located, yet not in the centro historico of Guadalajara — that describes the few blocks centered around the soaring, neo-gothic church referred to as “El Expiatorio,” the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) Museo de las Artes and adjacent Paraninfo (which houses a famed Orozco mural in its interior), and the small Mercado Juarez a few blocks away.

Food

As a rule of thumb, condiments, baking goods and spices are allowed through customs gates with little hassle, but the rules get a bit hairier when it comes to fruits, vegetables, dairy or meat products.