General News

Almost 140 archaeological zones—two of them in Jalisco—under the purview of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will welcome celebrants for the 2022 Spring equinox.

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 Irish dancers show off their prowess with some nifty synchronized jigs in front of the appropriately illuminated Rotunda of Illustrious Jaliscienses on March 15.

A celebration of life for opera singer Kimball Wheeler will be held Saturday, March 5, 4-7 p.m. at the American Society, Avenida San Francisco 3332, in Guadalajara.

A rear-end collision between a tractor trailer and a cargo truck loaded with bricks early Tuesday, March 8, along the Guadalajara-Chapala highway about five kilometers past the airport, caused a massive traffic jam that lasted into the afternoon.

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.

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).

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).