The Lakeside Assistance Group is inviting the community to join in celebrating the arrival of its third shipment of firefighting and medical equipment donated by Canadian supporters.

Eleven pilgrims returning from a visit to view a religious icon in the Jalisco town of San Juan de Lagos died in an automobile accident near Jalostotitlán Tuesday.

Mexico’s best known arts festival, now ramping up for its October 2 kickoff, offers special allure to Jalisco audiences this year, in addition to its staggering lineup of international artists, such as the American and Emerson String Quartets, Spain’s National Dance Company and National Orchestra, France’s Ars Nova Instrumental Ensemble, the Peking Opera, Holland’s National Ballet, Mali’s Debademba, and Taiwan’s “A Moving Sound”— some 3,500 artists in total.

Two marches in Guadalajara this weekend highlight the passions aroused by the initiative presented to Congress by President Enrique Peña Nieto to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide.  

Father Miguel Hidalgo’s emotional 1810 “Grito” exhorting Mexicans to take up arms against their Spanish masters will be reenacted in the main plazas of cities, towns and villages the length and breadth of Mexico, at 11 p.m. on Thursday, September 15.

The first stage of the Macrolibramiento (outer city ring road) hasn’t exactly been a hit with motorists, according to a report in Spanish-language daily Mural.