General News

Deaths in road accidents where alcohol has been involved have dropped by 40 percent since the “Salvando Vidas” (Saving Lives) anti-drunk driving program started one year ago, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval announced this week.

The large Revolution Day parade in Guadalajara takes place on Monday, November 17, running from the Agua Azul Park to La Normal Glorieta along 16 de Septiembre and Alcalde, starting 10 a.m.  Expect to see floats depicting revolutionary themes, sportsmen, women and children and demonstrations by emergency services.

Construction of Guadalajara’s third subway (tren ligero) line is causing headaches for motorists.

Street vendors and others angered at a police raid to confiscate pirated items on sale at stalls set up in their “patch” around the San Juan de Dios Market pelted officers with stones and set fire to vehicles in a disturbance that rocked the Guadalajara city center last Friday afternoon.  

Jalisco car owners have once again delivered a slap in the face to the state’s beleaguered emissions inspection program.

The presumed 33-year-old father of a baby girl born to a 12-year-old is under arrest and could face a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a minor.

With excitement building for the blockbuster opera “Carmen,” set for this weekend, higher-ups in the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra seem loathe to focus on the complaints recently voiced by some instrumentalists about Marco Parisotto, who has been director of the orchestra just since January.

Family members of people who have disappeared without a trace in Jalisco attended Mass in the metropolitan cathedral on Sunday expecting some words of comfort from Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, the archbishop of Guadalajara.