General News

Next week residents of San Martin de las Flores, a small community in Tlaquepaque, will stage their annual Judea, or Passion Play. The three-day event recreates the trial, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Twenty-one local NGOs dedicated to creating a safe urban environment that gives equal priority to the rights and needs pedestrians and cyclists delivered an ultimatum to Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval Wednesday at the Palacio de Gobierno.

In June 2011, a 23-year-old woman was walking to a bus stop in the center of Guadalajara when she saw a dark figure approaching, armed with a pair of scissors. The assailant jumped in front of her and shoved her in the direction of an alley behind the main street. Once there, he pushed her face to the wall and sliced off her ponytail.

One of the founders and acknowledged leaders of Guadalajara’s mass nocturnal bicycle rides has died in a cycling accident.

Desperate relatives of hundreds of Jalisco citizens who have disappeared without a trace delivered a letter to the state governor Wednesday demanding the Attorney General’s Office step up its investigations into the missing persons. 

The Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), the private Jesuit university in the Tlaquepaque suburb of Guadalajara, has heavily criticized Zapopan police officers who entered the campus grounds Tuesday to arrest a student they suspected of stealing a laptop computer from a van parked nearby.

The director of the state-run Puente Grande penitentiary outside Guadalajara is at a loss to explain how prison guards were unable to prevent an inmate killing his wife, their two children and his stepdaughter during a family visit last Sunday.

Leandra Becerra Lumbreras – unofficially the oldest person who has ever lived – died on March 19 at the age of 127 in Zapopan.