General News

An estimated 50,000 people, nearly all of them women, took part in marches held in Guadalajara on March 8, International Women’s Day.

Seasoned travelers will surely have seen pianos in the streets or at train or subway stations when they have visited cities around the globe.

A Jalisco-based NGO that began 11 years ago after family members of missing persons became frustrated with the official response to their predicament has been given a major human rights award in Spain.

A young adult hanging out at a park and making friends among the bike ramps might have seemed a trifle odd in the pandemic year of 2021.

One of Guadalajara’s most respected journalists and broadcasters says he was kidnapped for more than 30 hours as a “warning” to him about his reporting.

Two women died Wednesday in an unprovoked knife attack by a young man at a private university campus in Guadalajara, the kind of violent incident rarely seen at Mexican educational institutions, although, unfortunately, now somewhat commonplace in the United States.

Art in the spotlight

Those attending the art auction at Manifesto Gallery on Friday night before the American School Art Fest Saturday, March 2, were treated to regal services and complete histories of the paintings, prints and sculptures on offer.

Municipal and state authorities have cut the ribbon on what they are calling the “final section” of the Paseo Alcalde in downtown Guadalajara, although this part of the “walkway” is not free of vehicles.