General News

Monday, August 21, much of North America (i.e., the United States) will experience a complete solar eclipse, which for many citizens there who have been duped by leaders both secular and ecclesiastical into letting superstition rather than reason govern their lives will no doubt be a portent of imminent doom.

Feeling a bit of the excitement promised by the name – “¡A volar!” (Let’s fly!) – of the new bird exhibit at Guadalajara’s Museo de Paleontología (Museum of Paleontology),

Long gone are the days when Guadalajara’s moniker as “The City of the Roses” had even a modicum of validity.

Juan Pedro Franco, a 32-year-old from Aguascalientes recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most obese person in the world, underwent weight-loss surgery at a Guadalajara clinic earlier this year.

Giving a new meaning to “putting the cart before the horse,” Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro and his minions officially unveiled the calandrias electricas that will eventually replace the traditional equine-drawn model seen filling the city’s center’s paved circuitry with the sound of bells and hoof-clops — and the smell of horse hair.

Guadalajara was graced by the presence of a Nobel Prize winner last Tuesday, a guest speaker for the Forum on Climate Change in the Palacio Municipal. 

Two armed men Thursday robbed a bank customer of 275,000 pesos he had moments earlier withdrawn from the Banorte branch on Avenida Pablo Neruda, at Terranova and Alberta.

The assailants fired a shot into the air before threatening their victim and relieving him of his cash.  They fled on a motorcycle.

Guadalajara city hall is moving forward with a ban on equine participation in the decades-old calandria (horse-drawn carriage) tradition in the city center, despite growing concerns at how the changeover is being managed.