General News

Officers from the state Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía General del Estado de Jalisco or FGE) were targeted in four separate attacks coordinated by an organized crime group on the morning of Friday, June 21.

Following last weekend’s tragic incident (see story page one), increased police vigilance is urgently required in the Colonia Providencia restaurant zone, says Aldo de Anda, president of the local restaurant chamber. 

One of Mexico’s most promising young soccer players will be held in prison for at least six months after being charged with causing the deaths of a newly married Guadalajara couple last weekend.

Wednesday, 101 Jalisco firefighters pose for a photo at the Jalisco Government Palace before heading for the Canadian province of Alberta to help battle a series of fierce blazes raging since the end of last month.

Jessy Pacheco, the medical student who was reported missing last weekend in Guadalajara, is “safe and sound” and has returned to Dallas, Texas, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro announced Friday.  Authorities expressed concerns that Pacheco had been abducted after his friend was shot to death outside a nightclub s Colonia Providencia in the early hours  of Sunday, June 15.

Circus arts will be celebrated during the Festival Periplo 2019, scheduled July 29 to July 7 at various venues in Guadalajara.  

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our May editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

Tapatios and visitors to Guadalajara are flocking in large numbers to “En Casa con Mis Monstruos” (At Home with my Monsters), an exhibit that houses hundreds of objects that have in some manner influenced the life and work of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, a native of the city.