General News

The Mariachis de Guadalajara maintained their challenge for an historic title in their debut season in the Mexican Baseball League (LMB), downing the Rieleros de Aguasclientes in game six of their divisional semi-final series.

The University of Guadalajara is indignant that the Jalisco legislature has decided to “reassign” state funding from a museum project to an unfinished metro-area public hospital.

Almost five million people in Mexico who received a single dose of the Cansino Covid-19 vaccine could soon be lining up for a booster jab.

Marijuana advocates gathered last week in Guadalajara’s Plaza de La Liberación to smoke some weed and collect signatures for a petition to send to the nation’s health regulator (the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks or Cofepris), demanding that the agency start to issue permits allowing citizens to cultivate and consume their own cannabis.

While driving through the streets of Guadalajara, my friend Rodrigo Orozco remarked that we were about to pass the puesto (stand) that serves the best tortas ahogadas (drowned sandwiches) in the city.

A plan to “reorder” the mish-mash of overhead cabling on Guadalajara’s streets might seem an impossible task, but that is exactly what Jalisco state legislators are seeking to do.

UNVAXED UNWELCOME

Cruise line passengers who are not vaccinated will not be permitted to disembark in Puerto Vallarta, Governor Enrique Alfaro has announced.