General News

Citizens have stepped up to the plate and responded en masse to Tuesday’s deadly earthquake by flocking to donation centers (centros de acopio) with medicines, food, water, blankets and other basic supplies.

Jazz Fest

Jazz musicians from Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica and France are listed in the line-up for Chapala’s International Jazz Festival, Friday, March 17 through Sunday, March 19 at the open-air stage located on the eastern leg of the city’s waterfront Malecón. 

Guadalajara’s Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport, one of Mexico’s most important transportation nuclei, is acquiring more and more the aspect of a wildebeest expiring on the African savannah, yanked every which way by animals of varying size and strength.

Looking for a way to get rid of broken and obsolete electronic gear and keep hazardous materials from contaminating landfills?

There’s a typewriter repair shop on Calle Libertad one block north of Plaza Nueve Esquinas, a stone’s throw south-west of Guadalajara’s historic center.

Zapotlanejo is showing off what municipal fathers claim is the “world’s tallest catrina” that rises a towering 20 meters into the sky. 

This year’s Capriotada festival was a big hit with locals and out-of-town visitors. More than ten people served up their version of Mexico’s sweet and savory Lenten bread pudding.

Eight Nobel Prize winners are among 370 leading economists who have signed a letter noting that Donald Trump displays “a deep ignorance of economics,” warning that his election as president poses “a unique danger to the functioning of democratic and economic institutions and to the prosperity of the country.” The economists do not endorse or mention Hillary Clinton but urge Americans not to vote for the Republican candidate.