General News

Marcela Paramo Ortega has been honored as the Social Benefactor of the Year by the Institutio Jaliscience de Asistencia Social (IJAS), the agency that regulates all non-profits in the state of Jalisco. 

The 29th International Book Fair (FIL) – the world’s second largest literary event – roars to life on Saturday, November 28, running daily through Sunday, December 6 at Expo Guadalajara.

Police hurled tear gas canisters Wednesday to  break up a protest by unlicensed street vendors angry at having been forcibly ejected from Calle Obregon, a traditional locale in downtown Guadalajara for sales of counterfeit and contraband merchandize.

Guadalajara’s emblematic arches (Los Arcos) are lit up in the colors of the French flag this week after terrorists slaughtered 129 people in coordinated attacks at several Paris locations on the evening of Friday, November 13.

Choral director, acclaimed pianist, Lakeside resident and director of the well known choir Los Cantantes del Lago, Timothy G. Ruff Welch, has been named to direct the prestigious Coro de Zapopan.

A Guadalajara collective that supports the legalization of marijuana has started a legal quest that may allow some of their members to indulge in the weed without fear of breaking the law.

Despite the rhetoric excreting from the mouths of some poorly educated presidential wannabes north of the Mexican border, most migrants are not criminals and, if pertinent data is carefully examined, they seem no more likely to commit crimes than any other citizen.

Downtown Guadalajara has never looked so serene for a long time.  As night began to fall on Tuesday, an uncanny hush had descended over el Centro’s plazas, pedestrian precincts and sidewalks. The eerie stillness prevailed wherever you looked: the quaint gardens outside the San Francisco and Aranzazu churches; the Liberacion, Tapatia, Fundadores, Universidad and Guadalajara plazas; the Zaragoza, Ramon Corona, Pedro Loza and Morelos walkways.