General News

Several hundred protesters took to the streets of Guadalajara Monday to mark the second anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in the state of Guerrero.

The absence of stop lights or barriers at busy train crossings in the Guadalajara metropolitan area is an omission that perplexes most foreigners and angers many safety-conscious Mexican citizens.

Experts, government officials, educators and space enthusiasts from more than 70 countries attended the 67th International Aeronautical Congress held this week at Expo Guadalajara. 

Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro gave his first state-of-the-municipality report (informe) this week, underscoring the substantial savings his “austerity programs” have achieved.

Engineer, inventor and business magnate Elon Musk will give a talk at the 67th International Aeronautical Congress (IAC), to be held at Expo Guadalajara September 26-30, in which he is expected to elaborate on his plans to colonize Mars. 

In the kind of incident that is far more common north of the border, a clearly unbalanced  man shot and killed an employee at the Guadalajara headquarters of the state Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia General del Estado or FGE) on Wednesday. 

Friends of the late archaeologist Phil Weigand gathered at the Jalisco Culture Secretariat building in downtown Guadalajara September 9 to pay tribute to “the man who discovered the lost civilization of Teuchitlán,” symbolized by the Guachimontones circular pyramids. 

Around 300 Guadalajara bus drivers on various routes left hundreds of passengers stranded Wednesday after calling a lightning strike to demand a fare increase.