General News

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.

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.   

The Guadalajara Metro area can’t seem to get enough new bells and whisles for their downtown cores — where the governing class work and play.

The city of Zapopan — or more specifically, its main plaza — is on the verge of giving itself a cosmetic upgrade. The government is proposing to install a multi-colored, “interactive” fountain opposite the massive, colonnaded Basilica de Zapopan, the centerpiece of Plaza de las Americas.  

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.” 

The first consequential storm of this year’s temporada de lluvias pummeled the Guadalajara metropolitan area Wednesday, provoking a slew of traffic issues, as well as scores of reports of fallen trees and electricity lines, and power outages. 

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.  

The day we all knew was coming has finally arrived.  For some, it will be a woozily joyous occasion.  Others will merely roll their eyes and quickly push the matter from their minds.