General News

Survivors and relatives of victims gathered April 22 in Guadalajara’s Analco neighborhood to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the city’s sewer line explosions that killed more than 200 people.

The Via Crucis migrant caravan, which journeys by freight train every year through Mexico from its border with Guatemala to raise awareness of the plight of Central Americans looking for a better life in this country and/or the United States, arrived last Tuesday in Guadalajara, where they were taken in and inspected by the Region Sanitaria XII, Centro-Tlaquepaque branch of the state’s Health Ministry.

To put matters lightly, the supposedly resolved case of three film students kidnapped in Tonala last March was, is, and remains murky at best.

Sears may be falling on hard times in the United States, but one of Mexico’s biggest department store chains is forging ahead with new projects.

The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia General del Estado, FGE) revealed this week that three Guadalajara film students, missing since March 19, were tortured and killed by members of a drug cartel before their bodies were dissolved in tubs of acid.

In 75 cities around Mexico, including Guadalajara, doctors came together to protest the arrest of two doctors in Oaxaca, who were detained last week after a boy in their care died following surgery for a broken elbow last November.

The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia General del Estado, FGE) revealed yesterday that three Guadalajara film students, missing since March 19, were abducted by members of a drug cartel who mistakenly believed they were in the employ of a rival group. The three young men, all in their early 20s, were tortured, murdered and their bodies dissolved in acid, the agency said.

Bill Wolff has been missing since 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4. He was last seen in Ajijic on Calle Colon driving a 1996 black Mercedes Benz, license plate: U98SARB.