Putting out fires no easy task in GDL

You may have seen a few fire hydrants dotted around Guadalajara but it will come as a surprise that none of them actually work!

Despite the objections of some established businesses and neighbors, Guadalajara city hall is managing to carry out the thankless task of relocating merchants made homeless following the recent fire that gutted the historic Corona Market in the city center.

Volunteers from Operation Smile will be back in Guadalajara next week, offering free cosmetic surgery to over 100 children born with a cleft palate or cleft lip.

As Alfonso López tells it, when the sun gets low in Colonia Campesina on Guadalajara’s east side, the glue sellers sprout on every corner, hawking their hunger-numbing wares to anyone who can come up with 10 pesos for a brain-rocking high that lasts three or four hours.

At the recent Papirolas expo in Guadalajara 100 technical students competed to create robots  from unwanted electronic  items brought in by visitors to the show.

The Jalisco Congress is prepared to modify the state penal code to make the intentional killing of animals a criminal offense.