More than 130 species of marine life will be showcased in a world-class, multimillion-dollar aquarium to be built in Guadalajara’s Parque Alcalde over the next 18 months.

Following the release of a study this week, Guadalajara looks to be one step closer to creating a new set of regulations to govern companies such as Uber that allow customers to use smartphone-based apps to order and pay for taxi rides.

Austerity will be the watchword for the incoming mayors of Guadalajara and Zapopan, who take charge of their municipal governments on October 1, along with 123 other presidentes municipales in Jalisco.

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s emotional 1810 “Grito” exhorting Mexicans to take up arms against their Spanish masters will be reenacted in the main plazas of cities, towns and villages the length and breadth of Mexico, at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15.

Maria Contreras-Sweet, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and a member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, took part in a series of meetings in Guadalajara this week.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at the mounds of dirt and tangles of exposed conduits, but the one-kilometer stretch of street reconstruction, which extends from Avenida Chapultepec to Gamboa along the famed “restaurant alley” of Lopez Cotilla, is in the home stretch.