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.

A butcher has been released from custody after running down and killing one of three assailants who moments earlier had held up his business in Guadalajara’s Colonia San Elias.

For most people Saturday is a day for chilling out. But not perhaps when you have something on your mind that seriously bugs you.