The standoff between ousted street vendors and Guadalajara city hall shows no sign of easing up. Earlier this week, several vendors claiming they were hurt in scuffles with municipal police officers on December 4 filed complaints of abuse with the State Human Rights Commission. 

If this doesn’t make you smile, maybe nothing will! More than 150 clowns from some 30 associations took part in a Dia del Payaso parade in downtown Guadalajara Thursday afternoon. 

Encouraged by his success in  ejecting street vendors from Guadalajara’s city center, Mayor Enrique Alfaro has now set his sights on other “black spots” for illegal trading.

The International Book Fair (FIL) opened with its usual pomp and circumstance this weekend, and judging from the hordes of visitors waiting patiently in line to enter Expo Guadalajara, this mammoth literary extravaganza has lost none of its appeal in its 29th year.

On December 1, the Guadalajara delegation of the country’s Foreign Relations Department (Relaciones Exteriores) will move from the Palacio Federal on Avenida Alcalde to Plaza Bonita, on Avenida Mexico, next to Plaza Mexico.