To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening, the Guadalajara Zoo has launched a new ride which provides visitors with a bird’s-eye view of many of its most exotic animals.

“Clandestine Childhood,” a tale of lost innocence set during the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970s, won the top prize for Iberoamerican fiction at Guadalajara’s 28th International Film Festival (FICG), which closed on Saturday.

With the arrival of Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval, stricter rules for visitors are being enforced at the Palacio de Gobierno in downtown Guadalajara. 

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday, March 17, Guadalajara’s Irish Dancing group will be performing traditional Irish folk dancing at Temple Bar (Lopez Cotilla 1860) at 8 p.m.

A 20-minute nap after lunch is good for your health, many medical experts say.

The municipal governments across the Guadalajara metropolitan area are working to prevent young people from being drawn to a life of crime in the many street gangs that plague the city.