The president of Mexico and his legion of security personnel descended on this region Monday for the official inauguration of the Macrolibramiento, Guadalajara’s outer city ring road.

On-leave Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro has long maintained less-than-cordial relations with Aristoteles Sandoval, Jalisco’s governor.

Home owners in Zapopan now have the choice of purchasing low-cost insurance when they pay their 2018 property taxes (predial).

After a hiatus in 2017 for “adjustments,” the Jalisco emissions tests program (verification vehicular) kicks in this month with increased fines for transgressors.

During a public works unveiling ceremony this week, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval reiterated, in the form of both a formal statement of solidarity and a statement enumerating monies so far invested, his and his administration’s dedication to improving the lot of Tonala, the oft-beleaguered and neglected municipality in the southeast Guadalajara metropolitan area (ZMG).

It seems as if every village in Mexico with an old church and a few decently-preserved adobe buildings glowing in the fading golden light of late afternoon wants a slice of the Pueblo Magico pie.