General News

Goethe Institute Mexiko, the Mexican branch of an organization funded by the German government for the promotion and dissemination of general German-ness around the world, will re-open its Guadalajara branch after a near decade-long absence.  

Monday, June 12, measurements taken in Tlaquepaque found that lung-damaging ozone levels had spiked above 200 puntos imeca (Mexico’s standard for measuring urban air quality). Anything above 100 puntos imeca is considered hazardous to human health.   

What may be for some a day to celebrate the life of a certain loved one, it should come as little surprise that not everybody’s father is still bestriding the surface of the earth - that is, unless somebody decided to take his or her recently deceased pater familias down to the taxidermist and have him arranged in a mid-stride pose, stuffed and placed next to the mantelpiece.  

Officials at the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) are the authorized agents responsible for handling  the immigration matters of foreign citizens, says Ricardo Vera Lira, chief of the agency’s regional  headquarters in Guadalajara.  Stressing that personnel under his command are fully qualified to serve clients - without the intervention of independent intermediaries - he advises immigrants and foreign visitors to “do your own {trámites} (procedures) and deal directly with INM officials.” 

Canadian Consul and Trade Commissioner in Guadalajara Stéphane Charbonneau is looking forward to this year’s Canada Day. “On July 1, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, an important milestone for our nation. This historic year provides us with the unique opportunity to strengthen our sense of what it means to be Canadian and to show it to the world. Our events throughout the year touch on four themes: diversity and inclusiveness, reconciliation with the indigenous peoples, youth and the environment. 

There’s nothing that conjures up the sweet ache of romantic love like industrial-scale efficiency.  

Saturday, June 10, hundreds of couples of various ages (and in the case of one gay couple pair, sexual preference) gathered together in the Gimnasio 68, a large gymnasium in eastern Guadalajara, to be bound in eternal matrimony in a ceremony presided over by Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro.  

Over 4,000 revelers spangled in all the colors of the rainbow took to the streets Saturday, June 10, as part of Guadalajara’s annual Pride Parade. And for the first time in the parade’s history, the marchers witnessed a Jalisco governor participating in the proceedings, his presence a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the state’s LGBT community. 

A bill to keep trucks out of the metro Guadalajara area during daytime hours has been stalled in Congress since April 2016 because the Transportation Secretariat hasn’t conducted a study to determine the viability of the proposal.