It won’t be long until French bulldogs Bella and Tiger can drink purified water from their own bebedores (drinking fountains) in the spectacularly refurbished Parque las Carmelitas in Guadalajara’s Colonia Jardines del Sol.

Last Sunday, Zapopan law enforcement raided a section of the Ciudad Bugambilias subdivision they claim was being used as a brothel in which sex and drugs were sold to minors.

The results of a recent study has purported to define the chief likes and dislikes of Guadalajara’s populace.

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our January editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

Calandrias, horse-drawn carriages in Guadalajara’s centro historico, already a thing of the past in the sense of being a tradition harkening back to a distant time of corsets, pistol duels and wigs, will in a very real sense shortly be a thing of the past as they are phased out in favor of animal-less facsimiles propelled forward by the modern magic of electricity.

In order to minimize the amount of heavy-load semi trucks circulating in the Guadalajara metro area and mucking up its traffic, the Jalisco Transportation Department (Semov) plans to limit these vehicles’ use of Avenida Lopez Mateos, where they will be prohibited entry from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting February.