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New type of US Visa now available in Guadalajara

Starting Monday, January 23, the Consulate General of the United States in Guadalajara will issue a new type of Visa called a Laser Visa. It will add Border Crossing Card functionality to all B1/B2 Visas, effectively merging the two types of documents.


Irish adoption racket blows open

A dozen couples of Irish nationality who have been residing temporarily in the lakeside area while attempting to adopt Mexican infants have been identified by Jalisco authorities in connection with the investigation of an alleged child-trafficking ring.

Speed cameras reduce city beltway fatalities

Deaths as a result of accidents on the Guadalajara periferico,  the city’s beltway and the most dangerous stretch of road, dropped from 53 in 2010 to 33 in 2011, largely thanks to the speed cameras installed in the spring, Jalisco Transportation (SVT) chief Diego Monraz Villaseñor said this week.

Family of seven dead in murder-suicide

Police and forensics personnel investigating reports of a foul smell at a house in Zapopan on Wednesday were met with a gruesome sight. Upon entering the home in the Arroyo Hondo neighborhood, they discovered the decomposing corpses of a four-month-old baby, four children and their parents, killed in an apparent murder-suicide.