General News

Jalisco’s revamped mandatory emissions testing program for privately owned vehicles, known as Verificacion Responsable (Responsible Verification), began its second year of operation this month.

Around 160 presentations featuring performers from 34 countries will grace the 50th edition of Guanajuato’s International Cervantino Festival (FIC), scheduled October 12 to 30.

A Canadian man who had rented a vacation property in the Villanova subdivision in Jarretaderas, Nayarit, together with his five-year-old son, was discovered lifeless by the owner of the house.

Thanks to a Mexican industrial design graduate, the classic VW Combi is being transformed into an electric car.

The recent drug cartel violence that exploded in Jalisco and Guanajuato was repeated two days later on Mexico’s northern border, with arson attacks on convenience stores and vehicles, as well as random shootings, reported in Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Rosarito and Ciudad Juarez.

The president of Mexico and the governors of Jalisco and Colima teamed up this week to announce that the final parts of the four-lane Guadalajara-Colima-Manzanillo highway will be completed by the end the year.

A one-year-old Wixárika girl died after she was unable to quickly obtain an antidote after being stung by a poisonous scorpion in the community of Los Cajones, in Mezquitic, Jalisco.

A watershed moment was marked last week when trailers replete with 220 tons of avocados left a packing plant in Zapotiltic, Jalisco en route for the United States.