General News

Behind schedule and with doubts over the transparency of its financing and construction, Guadalajara’s new civil court court complex opened this week with a ceremony presided over by Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval.

The huge Plaza Liberacion in downtown Guadalajara, wedged between the majestic Metropolitan Cathedral and the Degollado Theater, will be the central focus of this year’s International Mariachi Festival.

Four teenagers were arrested in Guadalajara last week for using Facebook to threaten and extort an 18-year-old male, the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office (FGE) revealed on Saturday.

Guadalajara authorities have returned crafts that were confiscated from street vendors in a police operation in the Plaza Tapatia on August 6.

Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden was not the only one to spend time living in an airport lounge this summer. In a story reminiscent of Steven Spielberg’s movie “The Terminal,” U.S. citizen Brenda Janet Castro spent the last three weeks living in Guadalajara’s International Airport.

The latest move to create a cycling corridor on one of Zapopan’s busiest thoroughfares is being met with vigorous opposition.  

“Incorporating businesswomen into global value chains” was the theme of the second annual WEConnect International Forum in Mexico, which took place at Guadalajara’s Hotel Crowne Plaza on Tuesday.

Downtown Guadalajara business leaders have asked Mayor Ramiro Hernandez to get tough on prostitutes who they say are affecting their livelihoods.