General News

A Guadalajara business owner frustrated at drivers parking their vehicles in spaces reserved for his clients took the law into his own hands this week.

Although various private “pub crawls” are available to tourists, Guadalajara City Hall offers a free tour of a few of downtown’s most memorable cantinas, accompanied by a mariachi band, on the last Thursday of each month.

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our July editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

On a cold and rainy morning Wednesday, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro applauded Iidea Company founder and president Alvaro Cheto on a one-billion-peso (almost $US50 millon) investment in stainless steel tanks at the 45-hectare Almer warehouse facility in Guadalajara’s Industrial zone.

There was more woe for downtown Guadalajara drivers this week as City Hall’s Public Works Department all but closed off to traffic the stretch on Avenida 16 de Septiembre between Niños Heroes and Revolucion.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has confirmed to members of his Morena party that he will be a candidate for the presidency in 2024.

Guadalajara has been named as a joint host for the postponed 11th Gay Games in 2023 alongside Hong Kong.

More than 1,000 people gathered on the Paseo Alcalde facing the Plaza de Armas and Guadalajara Cathedral Sunday, June 26 (International Day of Yoga), to take a “macro yoga class,” taught by Ramseh Kumar, India’s consul in Guadalajara.