Municipal police officers and officials from the National Migration Institute  (INM) rescued 77 migrants, most of them Guatemalans, who had been abandoned by traffickers at a hotel in the Las Conchas neighborhood of Guadalajara.

Reports suggest that the eagerly awaited new section of the Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta “Vía Corta” (Short Route) running between Compostela and Las Varas in the state of Nayarit has been completed by the constructors and is currently undergoing inspection by federal authorities prior to its opening, possibly by the last week of March.

Nariz Roja (Red Nose), the Guadalajara-based charity that supports children with cancer, has managed to raise 7.3 million pesos (US$426,000) needed to complete the purchase of a property to house its third shelter in the city.

A festival in Zapopan that wraps up this weekend coincides with International Mother Language Day, a worldwide annual observance to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity that was marked on Wednesday, February 21.

In the autumn of 2021, with Guadalajara still struggling in the pandemic, a young Mexican-American who had just relocated here from Portland, Oregon, decided to try to make her literary habit less costly.

Guadalajara residents and visitors from further afield will once again have the opportunity to stroll around the sports fields of the American School Foundation, looking at the work of 50 artists, and enjoy all the related activities: art workshops for children, music, dance, international food prepared by well known local restaurants (Focaccia, Labne, Toyo, etc.), and even poetry and magic.