Jorge Vergara, the owner of the Guadalajara Chivas, Mexico’s most popular soccer team, has ended a 22-year relationship with the nation’s largest broadcaster and announced that he will be creating his own television channel to show his team’s live games and offer other club-related content.

More than 100 moms staged a sit-in at the plush Galerias mall in Guadalajara to protest the discrimination mothers frequently suffer when they breastfeed their babies in public.

Gay rights activists in Guadalajara participate in an after-dark, silent march on International Day Against Homophobia (Tuesday) to remember those who have been murdered in hate crimes committed against the LGBT community in Mexico.  Earlier in the day, a small protest was held outside the Jalisco Congress to draw attention to the absence of legislation regarding hate crimes.

A state legislator from the Citizen’s Movement has submitted a proposal that would effectively prohibit gated communities (cotos) in Jalisco, and open up many of their streets and avenues to general traffic.

Following a raid by Jalisco state police and state social welfare officials, 271 people – including 112 minors – with drug addiction, alcoholism  and other behavioral problems have been removed from a rehabilitation shelter in Tonala.

Travelers on Guadalajara’s Tren Ligero (subway) network are now able to travel on the trains with their bicycles on weekdays and Saturdays – albeit only at certain hours of the day – and also leave them padlocked at cycle ports recently installed at all the stations.