Trompo Magico rejig takes shape
The project to revamp the Trompo Mágico children’s museum in Guadalajara has taken on an amazing new dimension, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro enthused during a visit to the site this week.
The project to revamp the Trompo Mágico children’s museum in Guadalajara has taken on an amazing new dimension, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro enthused during a visit to the site this week.
Jalisco has 1,958 forest firefighters from 191 separate brigades belonging to all three levels of government (municipal, state and federal), as well as civil society, ready to be deployed to fight forest fires that may break out during the current dry season, which will run through mid-June.
Although the 40 days of Lent are considered a time of penance and fasting, one of the guilty pleasures of the season is savoring capirotada de vigilia, a sumptuous Mexican version of bread pudding that is a favorite culinary specialty at this time of year.
If you are driving around our region over the next few weeks you can expect to see quite a bit of prescribed or controlled burning going on.
Declarations by all three candidates running for the Jalisco governorship calling for modifications to the state-run emissions inspection program (Verificación Responsable) have gone down like a lead balloon with Jalisco’s incumbent chief, Enrique Alfaro, the key promoter of the system that went into full service in January 2023.
Mexico’s biggest and most important hot-air balloon festival is held each year in León, Guanajuato.
The first part of the Zapotillo-El Salto-La Red-Calderon aqueduct network—a system that the state governor says will “guarantee” metro-area Guadalajara’s water supply for the next 50 years—went into operation last week.