General News

Guadalajara City Hall is to install four tourist booths, and also grant concessions for 25 small puestos, at various points along the 22-block Paseo Alcalde pedestrian walkway in the city center, Mayor Pablo Lemus announced Thursday.

Atlas have reached the semi finals of the Liga Mx 2021 clausura soccer championship, after defeating Monterrey in the quarters last weekend.

As many as 3,000 runners will pound the streets of Guadalajara as the 37th annual marathon unfolds in the early hours of Sunday, December 12.

Author/historian Michael Hogan and his wife, textile artist Lucinda Mayo, hosted Maeve von Heynitz, the Irish Ambassador to Mexico, at their Guadalajara home this week.

In an unpublicized display of good will and even feminist convictions, a group representing Jalisco, including Joanna Santillan, the wife of Governor Enrique Alfaro, served tamales and atole, while the 28-member Jalisco State Choir sang a Christmas program, to hundreds of incarcerated women.

In a world increasingly characterized by doomsday predictions of environmental catastrophe, renowned British naturalist Jane Goodall stands out like a shining beacon.

Ken Salazar, the recently appointed U.S. ambassador to Mexico, made his first visit to Guadalajara last week, taking in a busy schedule that included participating in a forum on bilateral relations at the International Book Fair (FIL) and reviewing ongoing work at the site of the new U.S. consulate building in the city.

Some 20,000 employees and students from the Universidad de Guadalajara filled the Plaza de Liberacion Wednesday, December 1, (nearly all wore face masks) to protest the Jalisco state government’s ungenerous budget allocation for the university for 2022.