Heavy rainfall on Tuesday afternoon brought many parts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area to a standstill.

Alerted by neighbors, social workers turned up at a house in a rundown city neighborhood this week to find two children, aged two and four, chained up by their absent mother.

Female activists last week staged a protest outside Guadalajara’s Puerta de Hierro hospital to highlight the situation of former receptionist Yuridia Delgado Luevano, who says she was fired by the hospital after she told her bosses that she was a lesbian.

Police have detained a man who while posing as a priest offered his services to “bless” business premises and even handle divorces.

The fiercely territorial nature of policing in the metropolitan area thawed a little this week with the start of joint patrols by Guadalajara and Zapopan municipal cops.

While dragging a calandria along Avenida Chapultepec this week, a horse slipped and fell on the brand new, brick-like surface. The image went viral on Twitter; the horse is fine.