Mexico's Defense Department has confirmed the arrest of Erick Valencia Salazar, the leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, along with his second in command, who has not been named.

Here’s a name we will surely be hearing more about in the future: nine-year-old pianist Daniela Liebman.

A new Guadalajara-based airline is set to take to the skies of Mexico – as long as sufficient investors are found, of course.

Guadalajara is reeling under a spate of car thefts.  In the first six weeks of 2012, there were 1,227 complaints of car theft made in the metropolitan area, a 44.35-percent increase from the 850 complaints filed in the same period last year. This equates to 26.6 stolen automobiles per day, more than one every hour.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has named an experienced pinch hitter to challenge former Jalisco Governor Alberto Cardenas in July’s election for Guadalajara mayor.

Environmental activists placed masks over the faces of three statues in Guadalajara’s Rotunda of Illustrious Jalisco Citizens Monday to highlight deficiencies in federal laws  regulating air pollution in Mexican urban areas.