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US Consulate sponsors Green Race for the Environment

For the second year in a row, the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara will hold a “Green Race” and “Green Fair” this weekend, a major environmental event with a local twist.


Fire consumes historic Guadalajara market

A fire Sunday night destroyed a large part of one of downtown Guadalajara's most historic and emblematic covered markets, the Mercado Corona.

Labor Day protest takes aim at reforms

Workers from several independent unions take advantage of Guadalajara’s traditional Labor Day parade to express their anger at the slew of reforms enacted over the past 18 months.

Web of corruption unearthed at Jalisco Immigration

A network of employees at the Jalisco delegation of the National Immigration Institute (INM) has been colluding with criminals in other countries to bring foreigners into Mexico and provide them with phony documentation that allowed them to live in the country as legal residents, the agency’s director Ricardo Vera Lira revealed this week.

Local news briefs

Chapultepec near done

Construction work on Guadalajara’s ritzy Avenida Chapultepec is nearly finished but businesses and residents in the area have complained that the thoroughfare is now as much as 20 centimeters above its previous height.

Bullet train to Guadalajara?

Mexico’s Communications and Transport Secretary Pablo Suarez Coello has promised that the Mexico City-Queretaro high-speed passenger train line will be extended on to Guadalajara at a later date.