The fiercest fire of the hot season so far tore through Bosque La Primavera, the large area of forest to the west of Guadalajara sometimes known as the city’s lungs, for about 40 hours, between Tuesday and Thursday, charring about 2,200 of its 30,500 hectares before being brought under control.

Conservative Jalisco is not a natural stomping ground for leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to trumpet his platform.

A major electrical trunk feeding Ajijic was repaired Tuesday, April 3 following a widespread blackout that struck the previous Friday, a day when the town was packed with residents and visitors.

Dozens of colorful kites will flutter over Tonala’s Cerro de la Reina hill, Saturday, April 7, in the third edition of the Festival de Papalote. 

Legalization of marijuana – and consequent regulation – has received the cautious support of Jalisco’s minister of health, Alfonso Petersen Farah, who inserted several caveats into his  address last Tuesday to the Political Science Alumni Association of ITESO, Guadalajara’s private Jesuit university.

The reenactment of the last days of Jesus that takes place on the main streets of the Tlaquepaque suburb of San Martin de las Flores continues on Good Friday, March 30.