General News

Giving a talk at Palcco last week was Carlos “Carlitos” Miguel Páez, a  70-year-old Uruguyan entrepreneur and former rugby player, and one of the 16 survivors of Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes in October 1972.

A local NGO has the lofty goal of donating five million trees over the next decade, aiming to make Guadalajara theis country’s most “tree-rich” (#LaMásArbolada) city.

Pride month kicks off in Guadalajara with the first of two parades on Saturday, June 8: La Marcha del Orgullo.

Film professionals and buffs worldwide will descend on the city next month for the 39th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), a multi-faceted weeklong event showcasing the appreciation, dissemination, promotion and distribution of Mexican and Ibero-American cinema.

2024 has seen a repetitive pattern emerge as families take matters into their own hands in their search for missing loved ones.

Don’t believe all you hear or read about so-called Mexican “inefficiency.”

The first rains indicating the “hot season” will soon draw to a close drenched Guadalajara and other parts of Jalisco (including lakeside, see page 2) on Tuesday, May 28, followed by another rainstorm in the metro-area the following evening.

Model killedin train accident

A 30-year-old Venezuelan model died Monday when struck by a freight train during a photo shoot in the Jalisco municipality of Zacoalco de Torres.