General News

Traders from Guadalajara’s Corona Market, destroyed in a fire in May 2014, have been stepping up protests outside city hall in a bid to get assurances from the mayor that they will be allocated spaces in the new market currently under construction on the original site.  The vendors say they have only received verbal promises that their spots are guaranteed – with the same size puestos and rents – but demand ratification in writing. One trader, a 61-year-old woman suffering from cancer and diabetes, says she will camp out in the plaza until she receives an answer from Mayor Ramiro Hernandez. 

Traders, many of whom are second or third generations tenants, are fearful that authorities will give priority to new vendors willing to pay higher rents.  Some city officials have said they would like to bring in other kinds of food vendors to give the new commercial space a more upmarket ambience.

The new Corona Market is expected to be finished by the end of the year.

The United States Consulate General in Guadalajara has advised its citizens to stay indoors following the outbreak of violence in the metro area Friday that saw buses torched at more than two dozen street intersections.

Dozens of clients were evacuated from the Diamonds Casino in Zapopan Monday after a fire broke out around midnight in the room housing the establishment’s generator.

Revolucion or Rojo, whatever you prefer to call the iconic Guadalajara park at Juarez and Federalismo, is in the process of getting a new image, although many observers wonder if the effort  – and money – has been worth it.

One month after a Tlaquepaque city councilor was shot to death by hit men’s bullets, his son has suffered the same fate.

As it awaits its launch in Zapopan later this month, the MiBici bike share program still has a long way to go to become accepted in the hearts and minds of Tapatios.

Authorities say at least seven people died Friday as a wave of drug cartel instigated violence engulfed Guadalajara and other parts of Jalisco. Suspected cartel members terrified motorists and pedestrians by torching more than two dozen buses and trucks at busy intersections in metro area Guadalajara, as well as other cities.

Victims and those affected by the April 22, 1992 sewer line explosions that killed more than 200 people in working class areas of Guadalajara gathered this week to mark the tragedy’s 23rd anniversary.