Almost seven years after Guadalajara hosted the 16th Pan American Games, the “village” built to house athletes of many nations on the outskirts of the city lies abandoned, with scant maintenance and a bleak future.

Residents living in and around the Chapalita neighborhood in Zapopan – keep your fingers crossed!

Elizabeth de la Rosa, the woman severely burned in a bus fire set by cartel members in the wake of the May 21 attempted assassination of a former Jalisco attorney general, has returned to Guadalajara from Texas despite her still serious condition.

It comes around once a year, and when it does, it brings a whole lot of noise and celebration to the Guadalajara metropolitan area, laced up in trajes de charro and gently swelling strings, belting brass and rhythmic guitar.

Customs officers intercepted an bizarre shipment of cocaine in the cargo area of the Guadalajara Airport this week.

The non-profit Fundacion Grupo México has come up with a novel idea to make added use of Jalisco’s train tracks – now used exclusively to move cargo or take tourists to Tequila – and improve citizens’ health into the bargain.