Six street vendors were detained and later released on Wednesday following violent clashes with the police in downtown Guadalajara.

Renamed Iconia, the ambitious Puerta Guadalajara development project to the north of the city that was abandoned last year has been revived by new investors.

The U.S. Treasury Department has designated six companies – including a prominent tequila producer – under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act for laundering money for a Guadalajara-based drug gang.

Governor Aristoteles Sandoval confirmed this week that the third line of Guadalajara’s Tren Ligero (light-rail network) will run diagonally across the city from Zapopan to Tlaquepaque.

Mexico took another step toward sexual orientation equality last week as a federal judge granted a lesbian couple from Guadalajara the right to wed.