General News

More than 1,000 drivers have been fined in the two days since state authorities decided to strictly enforce regulations governing  tinted car windows. The legislation also aims to tackle the problem of drivers covering their licence plates to avoid being detected by security cameras for infringements. Traffic agents were strategically posted in five points of metropolitan Guadalajara and inspected hundreds of cars. At the end of the second day, 14 cars and four motorcycles had been seized for having their licence plates covered.

Residents of the Santa Teresita neighborhood of Guadalajara have mounted a campaign to persuade the state government to turn the site of the now-closed Bodega Aurrera supermarket on Avenida Chapultepec into a park or cultural center.

A few thousand people armed with protest banners, sky-blue and pink balloons and Mexican and Jalisco flags made a bee line for Guadalajara’s Plaza de la Liberation last Saturday to vent their opposition to same-sex marriage in the state.

Some Guadalajara street traders have returned the cycle carts given to them by the municipal government as part of its move to regulate trade in the city center.

Every Christmas, Seattle-based filmmaker Len Davis visits his wife Analia’s family in Guadalajara.  They live near Santa Tere, a barrio Davis has gotten to know well. “I go solo daily for my favorite Agua de Versace green juice at Tita’s in the market as an escape from my Mexican family,” he says.  “It’s been my annual routine going on 15 years.” 

As millions of Mexican Catholics followed the visit of Pope Francis, either in person or on television, another group of religious devotees were holding a precedent-setting ceremony in downtown Guadalajara’s most iconic plaza.  

Four bank heists in the first three days of this week in Guadalajara brought the total in February to 14 – one every 30 or so hours. 

A mega-protest of opponents of same-sex marriage is planned in Guadalajara on Saturday, February 20.