General News

If looking for bargains on clothes, shoes and accessories is your kind of thing, then head over to Expo Guadalajara this weekend for the 23rd edition of Outlet de Marcas, featuring more than 50 brand name chains offering discounts from 40 to 70 percent.

The Jalisco state government has unveiled plans to ban semi-trailers and heavy trucks from the Guadalajara metro area during peak hours.

A trust fund dedicated to promoting film production in the state – the Comisión de Filmaciones del Estado de Jalisco (Cofiej) – is making 18 million pesos available to locally-based filmmakers with projects either in process or in need of funding.  

Officers from the state Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía General del Estado de Jalisco or FGE) were targeted in four separate attacks coordinated by an organized crime group on the morning of Friday, June 21.

The organization Bicicleta Blanca, which promotes safe cycling in Guadalajara, has installed 11 white bikes in various metro-area locations in memory of the 11 cyclists who have died on city streets this year.

One of Mexico’s most promising young soccer players will be held in prison for at least six months after being charged with causing the deaths of a newly married Guadalajara couple last weekend.

Jalisco native Sofía Aragón, 25, won the Mexicana Universal 2019 crown (formerly Nuestra Belleza México) on June 23 and will represent this country at the 2019 Miss Universe pageant in South Korea in December.

Jessy Pacheco, the medical student who was reported missing last weekend in Guadalajara, is “safe and sound” and has returned to Dallas, Texas, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro announced Friday.  Authorities expressed concerns that Pacheco had been abducted after his friend was shot to death outside a nightclub s Colonia Providencia in the early hours  of Sunday, June 15.