General News

A former senior official at the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) has been arrested in Texas on several federal charges, including laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking.

The board of the American School Foundation of Guadalajara has ditched plans to move house in favor of a major revamp of its campus that could see it transformed into one of the most modern international educational facilities on the continent.

In a bid to fend of the intense competition from Uber, some yellow cab drivers in metropolitan Guadalajara are charging a maximum fare of 50 pesos for rides anywhere inside the city beltway (periferico).

Jalisco’s young independent lawmaker Pedro Kumamoto blew a fuse Wednesday after this state’s three senators snubbed a new federal law that would oblige all those entering politics to make their finances and private interests public. 

Senior officials with the Zapopan municipal government and a state government agency have both been dismissed from their jobs after posting homophobic comments on social media in the wake of last weekend’s massacre at a gay night club in Orlando.

Outside the U.S. Consulate Sunday, a group of some 50 persons from Guadalajara’s LGBT community took part in a symbolic act of solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, in which 49 people died.

Around 2,000 people participated in last Saturday’s annual gay pride parade on the streets of Guadalajara.

A stylish new Marriott International hotel has opened on upmarket Avenida de las Americas, overlooking the fairways of the Guadalajara Country Club.