Making the missing visible
A sight that has become more and more frequent in Jalisco is the abundance of fliers fastened to electricity posts, walls, bus stops and other structures featuring images of missing persons.
A sight that has become more and more frequent in Jalisco is the abundance of fliers fastened to electricity posts, walls, bus stops and other structures featuring images of missing persons.
Guadalajara boxing superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is set to open 30 convenience stores in Guadalajara under the brand name “Upper by Canelo Energy.”
Guadalajara is following in the footsteps of many of the world’s grandest cities by introducing the “GDL City Pass,” giving visitors both free access and discounts at many of the most important tourist attractions, and cultural and sporting events.
A posh precursor to the modern housing development abandoned overnight by its affluent foreign residents; a lonely, dangerous haven for revolutionaries and bandits; a tranquil suburb on the outskirts of a bustling metropolis—Colonia Seattle has been all of these since its beginnings in the early 1900s.
The Festival de la Cerveza (Beer Festival) will return to Guadalajara’s Parque Metropolitano in October for the 13th time, after an absence of two years due to Covid.
While the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG) likes to trumpet its achievements in the promotion of culture, of which there are many, the administrators of this public institution are not amiss to dabbling in “commercial” ventures, including real estate development.
The young tiktoker known as “Fofo”, who blocked Guadalajara’s Matute Remus suspension bridge with luxury cars in order to record a video, carried out 12 hours of community service this week after he handed himself in to city authorities and issued an apology.
More than 200 individuals are demanding the intervention of state authorities after a realtor with whom they had invested large sums of money committed suicide after telling his clients that he was unable to meet his financial obligations.
A military/police operation to arrest a leading figure in the Jalisco Nuevo Generation Cartel (CJNG) unleashed a wave of coordinated violent incidents in Guadalajara and municipalities in the neighboring state of Guanajuato Tuesday evening, with armed gang members torching buses, cars, gas stations and stores.