General News

Zapopan city hall has put in place a dry law (no alcohol sales) during the Romeria celebration on Wednesday, October 12 when the Virgin of Zapopan statue is taken from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Zapopan basilica in a procession over nine kilometers of city streets watched by more than a million people.

Every September 28, feminist collectives and women gather in cities around the continent to observe International Safe Abortion Day, established in 1990 by the Assembly of the Latin American Feminist Movement.

Diners at a restaurant and a cafe in the upscale Puerto de Hierro commercial complex dived under tables and covered their children with their bodies when a criminal gang exchanged gunfire with the bodyguards of a kidnapping target just yards from where they were enjoying relaxing Sunday afternoon meals.

The Archdiocese of Guadalajara and the Jalisco branch of the Frente Nacional de la Familia have organized an anti-abortion march titled “A favor de la mujer y la vida 2022” for Saturday, October 8, in Guadalajara.

Extra non-stop flights to Madrid

Aeromexico will increase the number of its non-stop flights between Guadalajara and Madrid, Spain to five per week as of December 11. 

The red carpet was laid out in Guadalajara this week for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the president of Germany, and his wife Elke Büdenbender.

Cyclists from Jalisco, Mexico and other parts of the world will ride the streets of Guadalajara on Sunday, October 2, in the first Gran Fondo Cycling Challenge event to take place in the city.

It’s been more than two decades since work began on Guadalajara’s Santuario de los Mártires Mexicanos (Sanctuary to the Mexican martyrs) and although the massive religious edifice is still unfinished, it has been welcoming pilgrims and celebrating three masses each Sunday for several years now.