More than 7,500 people were evacuated from their homes in Tlajomulco Wednesday when gasoline from a damaged underground Pemex pipeline spouted 20 meters into the air just yards from a densely populated residential neighborhood.  Fortunately, emergency workers managed to control the leak before the gasoline ignited.

For decades, families have been coming to the Day of the Dead market in downtown Guadalajara’s Parque Morelos to purchase materials for Day of the Dead altars. 

A frustrated student from Monterrey went off script and criticized the government while delivering the closing address at the 11th International Business Summit held at the Expo Guadalajara this week.

The city’s third Tren Ligero (light train or subway) line should not run through the downtown area anywhere near the Metropolitan Cathedral, says Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñíguez, the former archbishop of Guadalajara. 

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval plans to introduce a second Macrobus line on Guadalajara’s notoriously dangerous Periferico beltway.

Next weekend, Guadalajara city hall hopes to erect the biggest altar to the dead Jalisco (and perhaps Mexico) has ever seen in the Agua Azul Park.  The effort is part of a campaign to regenerate interest in this downtown Guadalajara park that once was the pride and joy of the “City of the Roses.”