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. 

Parents of some of the 43 students who disappeared in the state of Guerrero in September 2014 took part in a November 20 march from Guadalajara’s Parque Revolucion to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) on Avenida 16 de Septiembre.

Complete with its new roof but still without doors, windows, benches or flooring,  the Santuario de los Mártires (Martyrs’ Sanctuary) hosted its first mass last Sunday, welcoming 10,000 Catholics to its hilltop home in the economically challenged Cerro del Cuatro barrio on Guadalajara’s south side.  

Three diners have been gunned to death at an eatery on Lopez Cotilla’s popular “Restaurant Row,” one block from the Centro Magno mall.