Primavera Forest has more than 800 owners
The Guadalajara metro area’s green lung, the Bosque de la Primavera, a natural area protected from development by a 1980 presidential decree, has just over 800 owners, including 421 private property owners, about 400 communal agrarian users (ejiditarios) and the state government.

About a week ago, representatives from Portland, Oregon, visited Guadalajara announcing the donation of two fire trucks, one with a large ladder and another a pump, along with other firefighting equipment.
Local print and broadcast journalists take part in a demonstration in Guadalajara’s Parque Revolucionario Sunday to draw attention to the ongoing climate of violence that has seen more than 140 of their colleagues killed or “disappear” in the past decade in Mexico.
Aficionados arriving for the big corrida (bullfight) at Guadalajara’s Plaza Nuevo Progreso on Sunday were subjected to a barrage of chanting from animal welfare protestors demanding an end to a tradition they regard as barbaric and akin to torture.