General News

Elizabeth de la Rosa, the woman severely burned in a bus fire set by cartel members in the wake of the May 21 attempted assassination of a former Jalisco attorney general, has returned to Guadalajara from Texas despite her still serious condition.

Work has started on resurfacing downtown Guadalajara’s historic Plaza de Armas, which faces the Palacio de Gobierno, to one side of the Metropolitan Cathedral.

It comes around once a year, and when it does, it brings a whole lot of noise and celebration to the Guadalajara metropolitan area, laced up in trajes de charro and gently swelling strings, belting brass and rhythmic guitar.

Just a few weeks after Portugal announced its program as guest of honor for this year’s  International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara, organizers of the humongous annual literary fest revealed the identity of the invited country for the 2019 edition.

Customs officers intercepted an bizarre shipment of cocaine in the cargo area of the Guadalajara Airport this week.

A gifted 12-year-old boy who was born in Guadalajara has become the youngest ever person to study for a degree at the capital’s Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), the largest university in the country.

The non-profit Fundacion Grupo México has come up with a novel idea to make added use of Jalisco’s train tracks – now used exclusively to move cargo or take tourists to Tequila – and improve citizens’ health into the bargain.

The bloodletting in Guadalajara is showing no sign of abating any time soon.