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Women’s Day protests grow in size

Demanding and end to femicides, domestic violence, hate crimes, forced disappearances and sexual harassment, as many as 20,000 women marched on Guadalajara’s streets Tuesday, March 8 (International Women’s Day).


Briefly - March 12, 2022

No gas hikes yet—Unlike in many other countries, Mexico won’t experience hikes in the price of gasoline provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.

Local Ukrainians march for peace

Ukrainian citizens resident in Guadalajara marched from the Minerva Glorieta to the Monument to the Disappeared (Niños Heroes Glorieta) Sunday, February 27, to protest the invasion of their homeland by Russia.

US fencers shine at GDL event

Team USA took the gold medal in the women’s team foil event at the Guadalajara Women’s Foil Senior World Cup, with Lee Kiefer, the current Olympic champion, taking a silver medal in the individual event and Maia Mei Weintraub making the top-eight.


Kiefer faced Italy’s world champion Alice Volpi in the individual women’s final, with the Italian winning by a single touch, 15-14. 

The event, the first of its kind held in the Jalisco capital, took place at the Fiesta Americana Hotel, with 143 individual competitors and 17 teams participating.

State Choir takes on American classic

Tony and Maria (Xavier Sevilla and Cecilia Ledesma) sing of their nascent love from a balcony in Guadalajara’s Arroniz Building, as the American musical “West Side Story” is brought to life in English by the Jalisco State Choir (Coro del Estado de Jalisco).

Briefly - February 26, 2022

New JFK-PVR route

On February 19, JetBlue Airways launched nonstop flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Puerto Vallarta’s Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport.