General News

The Donald Trump administration has no plans to replace the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, who was nominated by President Obama, according to Francisco Palmieri, the acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs at the State Department. Palmieri said on Tuesday that Jacobson is “the ideal ambassador to be in Mexico right now.”

State authorities haven’t ruled out implementing measures to limit access to the Primavera Forest after several fires raged in the federally protected nature reserve this week, laying waste to 800 hectares of brushland and forcing more than 70 schools to close their doors in metro-area suburbs and outlying towns and villages.

After a delay of more than a year, the first stage of the Hospital Infantil Mi Gran Esperanza, Mexico’s first specialist hospital for children with cancer, will open its doors in Tlajomulco next month.

Obtaining a driver’s license in Guadalajara will – in theory, at least – be a smoother and quicker process come next month.

A pilot and his student got a massive break this week after their light aircraft developed a mechanical fault during a flying lesson.

The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a plowed field in Santa Cruz de las Flores in the municipality of Tlajomulco.  Even though the plane upended on landing, both the pilot and his pupil walked away from the accident without a scratch.

The first person to bring a weapon to the gun turn-in campaign that started in Guadalajara’s Plaza de la Liberacion on April 24 went home happy with some new kitchen equipment.

As a foreigner in Mexico, are you prepared to call for help in an emergency situation?  First off, keep these key lakeside phone numbers close at hand and on speed dial:

The number of Jalisco citizens deported from the United States between January 1 and April 16 fell by 30 percent