General News

In Guadalajara, the memory of the famous Italian navigator is dismissed without sympathy, as all eyes turn to a venerated 400-year-old religious statue, whose mere presence on the streets will draw some one million spectators.

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) – operators of the Guadalajara International Airport – has won a 25-year concession deal to operate the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica – their second airport on the Caribbean island.

For many people, the drama surrounding the nomination of conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has more to do with the continuity of the landmark Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling than an alleged case of sexual abuse 35 years ago. However, in Mexico, and Jalisco especially, the struggle for the legalization of abortion still has a long way to run.

Mexicans looking to further their studies in the United States or Canada can obtain more information at two special events planned in Guadalajara in October.

With a population of almost five million people, the Guadalajara metropolitan area is Mexico’s second largest metropolis.

According to a new study, almost half the women who frequent the downtown historic center of Guadalajara are fearful of being sexually harassed.

The 11th edition of the Guadalajara Festival de Cerveza (Beer Festival) – touted as the largest in Latin America – takes place in the concourse of the Estadio Akron (Periferico and Vallarta) Friday, October 12, to Sunday, October 14.

The recent news that Jalisco’s Forensic Sciences Institute (IJCF) had no space to house the large numbers of unidentified murder victims piling up in the state and therefore resorted to using refrigerator trucks to store the corpses, shocked the families of disappeared persons throughout Mexico.