General News

An on-duty carriage horse dropped dead Sunday evening at the corner of Calzada Independencia and Prisciliano Sanchez, potentially putting the nail in the coffin, so to speak, of the city center’s horse-drawn carriage tradition (calandrias) — at least symbolically. 

A Banorte branch at the intersection of Juan Palomar y Arias and Justo Sierra this week became the target of criminals for the fifth time in the past two years.

FIL INVITEE – Portugal will be the invited country at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in 2018, it was announced this week.

This week’s launch of a thrice-weekly agricultural cargo flight from Jalisco to Vancouver will strengthen ties between the two regions and might even pave the way for the first direct passenger flight from Guadalajara to Canada.

The third annual Guadalajara Mushroom Festival plants its spores in the Club de Leones, Sunday, July 30.

In another twist in the soap opera that is the decades-long fracas over Guadalajara’s airport, a consortium of the Jalisco’s private industrial interests is threatening to use its clout with the government to move the transportation hub from its current location across the city’s massive metropolitan expanse to Zapopan.

Last Sunday, the hearing-impaired faithful had their confessions heard, or rather seen, in Guadalajara’s metropolitan cathedral for the first time.

Guadalajara’s new aquarium, adjoining the Parque Alcalde, Acuario Michin, has introduced some discounted prices just in time for the school vacation.