General News

Search called off

The Mexican Navy has suspended its search for three Americans who went missing in early April while sailing off the Sonora coast. 

Guadalajara celebrated the first Municipal Tejuino Day by handing out 25,000 free servings of the traditional fermented corn drink on Sunday, March 19 in the centro historico. 

Building the second line of the Chapala-Guadalajara aqueduct is an urgent need for the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (AMG), according to Juan Guillermo Márquez Gutiérrez, coordinator of the Citizen Observatory for Integral Management of Jalisco Waters (OCGIAEJ).

The project to replace all the horse-drawn calandrias (carriages) operating in the Guadalajara city center with electric-powered surrogates has been on hold for the last two years due to legal complications, Mayor Pablo Lemus explained this week.

Raúl Padilla López, former rector of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) and president of the organizing committee of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), has been found dead at his home.

A memorial sculpture to the victims of femicide is to be erected outside the Torres Bodet Theater on Guadalajara’s Paseo Chapultepec.

Guadalajara city authorities have officially “reinaugurated” the restored “El Pájaro del fuego” (The Bird of Fire) sculpture located the railroad crossing at Avenida Arcos and Inglaterra in Colonia Jardines del Bosque.

Catherine Finerty, former New York advertising executive, lived with the Wixárikas (members of the Wixáritari or Huichol people) on tribal land in the Sierra Madre Occidental, the first non-Huichol permitted to do so.