General News

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our February editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

1967

Amsoc buys land

Mexico’s new justice system is taking a long time to get its wheels in motion.

Neighbors living in close proximity to the Parque Dean in Guadalajara’s Zona Industrial scuffled with municipal police officers earlier this week after work crews cut down dozens of trees in the middle of the night at the start of a major overhaul of the green space.

Guadalajara is on a shortlist of three to host the Gay Games XI in 2022, following a vote taken at the general assembly of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) held at the end of February.

Guadalajara’s Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (Univa) is among the latest 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grant beneficiaries sponsored by ExxonMobil Corporation.

Five people died in a shoot-out between officers from Jalisco’s Fuerza Unica Regional (FUR, regional rapid response force) and a group of armed men near Jocotepec Thursday afternoon. 

Activists from the anti-abortion NGO, Frente Nacional por la Familia (FNF), staged a demonstration Monday in downtown Guadalajara to protest laws that guarantee rape victims in Jalisco the right to abortions.

Willem Dafoe was the big star name at this week’s Guadalajara International Film Festival and the American screen actor didn’t disappoint,