General News

The board of the American School Foundation of Guadalajara has ditched plans to move house in favor of a major revamp of its campus that could see it transformed into one of the most modern international educational facilities on the continent.

An Italian trumpeter who was hired to play with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco (JPO) stood up in a congressional committee this week to accuse Canadian musical director Marco Parisotto and the orchestra’s administrators of deceiving him and other musicians.

Jalisco’s young independent lawmaker Pedro Kumamoto blew a fuse Wednesday after this state’s three senators snubbed a new federal law that would oblige all those entering politics to make their finances and private interests public. 

It is often stated that a school should never be judged solely on its academic achievements.

Outside the U.S. Consulate Sunday, a group of some 50 persons from Guadalajara’s LGBT community took part in a symbolic act of solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, in which 49 people died.

A Zapopan municipal police officer died in a shooting incident during a routine traffic stop at the corner of Tepeyac and Palenque in Ciudad del Sol on Friday, June 3.   

A stylish new Marriott International hotel has opened on upmarket Avenida de las Americas, overlooking the fairways of the Guadalajara Country Club.

Saturday, June 11 sees the Marcha del Orgullo Guadalajara – the nation’s second biggest LGBT parade after the one held in the capital later this month.