General News

The Citizen’s Movement (MC) candidate for mayor of Guadalajara, Enrique Alfaro, is leading several pre-election polls, suggesting that the two-party monopoly in the municipality may soon come to an end.  

The job of running Guadalajara city hall is considered the jewel in the crown of all the mayorships in Mexico, and would set up Alfaro as the leading contender for Jalisco governor in 2018.

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.

Friends and family gathered as popular Mexican wrestler Hijo del Perro Aguayo was laid to rest Sunday at the Parque Funeral Colonias in Guadalajara. The athlete died Saturday morning from injuries sustained during a wrestling match in Tijuana Friday night.

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. 

Traditional pageants enacted out by enthusiastic local thespians will bring the Easter story to life, heightening personal identification with core values of the Christian faith.  Judeas, or Passion Plays, take place in the San Martin de las Flores community of Tlaquepaque, as well as in Ajijic and San Antonio Tlayacapan. 

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.

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.