General News

The Virgin of Zapopan is on the road again, touring Lake Chapala’s north shore just two weeks after returning to her home basilica in the annual October 12 pilgrimage from Guadalajara.

Tlaquepaque’s annual Festival of the Dead returns in all its glory this year, with city fathers expecting around 200,000 visitors during the October 28 to November 4 spectacle that engulfs the center of the Guadalajara metro-area suburb.

Candlelight Concerts by Fever is a series of intimate concerts illuminated by candlelight and performed by live musicians in two elegant downtown Guadalajara events venues.

The Soccer World Cup - the world’s most widely viewed and keenly anticipated sporting event - is a but a month away in Qatar, and Mexican, U.S. and Canadian soccer fans can’t wait (all three countries have qualified this year). 

Reforms to state transit laws recently approved by Jalisco legislators mean that motorists involved in minor accidents where there are no injuries involved will be able to move their vehicles from the scene of the collision before an adjustor arrives, just as long as both parties are insured and the insurance companies agree.

A shootout at a restaurant in the Providencia neighborhood of Guadalajara last weekend claimed the lives of three persons, including a high-ranking member of the Morena Party in Puerto Vallarta.

The fascinating South American country of Colombia has never been closer to Guadalajara, thanks to a new twice-weekly flight to the capital Bogota that got off the ground this week.

Accompanying lost loved ones at their gravesites is a time honored tradition for many Mexican families at this time of year.