General News

Canada will be the guest of honor at the International Cervantino Festival to be held October 9 to 27 in the city of Guanajuato.

Famed ranchero singer Vicente Fernández has sparked controversy after refusing a liver transplant to treat his cancer, saying the donor could be homosexual or a drug addict.

Depending on their dispositions, visitors to downtown Guadalajara might be either concerned or comforted by the sight of Mexican Army patrols on the streets.

Construction of a third public Hospital Civil in the Guadalajara metropolitan area has started in the suburb of Tonala under the auspices of the University of Guadalajara (UdG).

Such is the demand for driver’s licenses in the Guadalajara metropolitan area that the main office of the Secretaría de Movilidad (state Traffic Department or Semov) is to open in the late afternoons for the first time in its history.

In the latest grisly find in these parts, 35 bodies have been unearthed at two properties in and around the Guadalajara metropolitan area, the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office revealed last week.

Location, location, location is everything in real estate, we are always told. When it comes to Guadalajara’s green spaces, the same may also be true.

The metropolitan area was once more blanketed in smoke and ash in the past week, as firefighters from various agencies battled several fires raging in the protected wooded area to the west  of the city, often described as Guadalajara’s “lung.”