General News

Soloists from the Prime Donne Opera Company in Guadalajara will perform an opera gala Friday and Saturday, December 8 and 9, 7 p.m. at Foro Larva, at Ocampo 120 corner of Juarez in downtown Guadalajara.

Mexican poet and translator Coral Bracho (bottom) received the $US150,000 FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages at the opening ceremony of the 37th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).

In a blow to animal rights activists, Mexico’s Supreme Court has reversed the recent ban on bullfighting in the Mexico City district where the country’s most well-known bullring, the Plaza Mexico, is located.

Now almost a decade old, the state’s Traffic Department’s (Setran) “Salvando Vidas” (Saving Lives) campaign, which seeks to curb drunk driving with strict measures such as random breathalyzer stops, will again turn up the heat on inebriated motorists from a simmer to a boil, just in time for the year’s most besotted season.

The third Illusionante Christmas festival begins Thursday, December 7 in downtown Guadalajara and will include concerts, carnival rides, fireworks displays, fake snow shows, video mapping projections on buildings, an ice skating rink, a Christmas market, a Santa’s factory, photos with Santa, a giant tree and a full-size nativity scene.

Christmas is just around the corner and yuletide seasonal activities have already hit the ground running in Guadalajara.

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our November editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

Yes, we know it’s still November, but Thanksgiving has come and gone, so it’s time to have that great annual debate once more: real or fake—Christmas trees, that is.