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Consumer watchdog shuts airline offices

The Jalisco branch of the federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) has slapped the offices of eight airlines in Guadalajara with temporary closure orders for  misleading their customers.


More speed traps for city motorists

Speed cameras will be set up at seven more points in the Guadalajara metropolitan area before the end of this month, the Jalisco Traffic Department (Semov) has announced. 

Cameras will be used on Avenidas Adolf Horn, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mercedes Félix, Juan Pablo Segundo,  Juan Palomar y Arias and González Gallo, as well as on the Periférico near the intersection with Avenida Guadalupe, Semov says.

Guadalajara city hall to get windfall from sale of land for Fiestas de Octubre

Guadalajara city councilors from the National Action Party (PAN) are insisting that the money raised from the sale of municipal land earmarked as the new venue for the Fiestas de Octubre is designated exclusively for the benefit of residents of slender economic means and environmental causes, and not to pay off any of the municipality’s massive debt.

Taco Master clocks up three million downloads

Imagine 1.5 billion tacos.  That's the amount of Mexican snacks gamers are reckoned to have served up in three years playing "Taco Master," the popular mobile game designed by Guadalajara media company Kaxan Media Group.

Off & running: city’s 3rd subway line to be finished by 2017

In a ceremony that managed to cause traffic gridlock, state and federal dignitaries delivered the banderazo (flag-waving) for work to start on Guadalajara’s much-vaunted third subway line, which will run from the northern Zapopan beltway to the new bus station in Tonala.

Ciudad del Sol neighbors build absorption wells to reduce flooding

Fed up with the annual flooding of their streets, residents of Zapopan’s Ciudad del Sol neighborhood have taken matters into their own hands and built several absorption wells that allow rainwater to drain into the subsoil and eventually the underground water table.