This weekend sees the conclusion of the large fair in downtown Guadalajara that has showcased around 700 small Jalisco enterprises over the past three weeks.

An explosive device self detonated this week in the same area of Tlajomulco where six people died in an ambush on a police convoy on July 11.

An Elite Line bus traveling from Mexico City to Tijuana plummeted 40 meters into a ravine on the Tepic libramiento (bypass) in the early hours of Thursday, August 3, killing 18 passengers, including three children.

A week-long vacation to Mazatlán, Sinaloa will be up for grabs at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) Beer Festival set for Saturday, August 5, 3 to 6:30 p.m.

Tapatios regularly like to boast that their city has the most beautiful women in Mexico.  Guadalajara’s male denizens rarely get a mention.

Revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa entered Guadalajara in December 1914, forcing the city’s richest citizens to pay him a “tax,” which he immediately distributed to the poor.