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Recognizing her as an “outstanding figure of a neo-Baroque poetic genealogy,” a jury has awarded the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages 2023 to Mexican poet and writer Coral Bracho, who will receive the $US150,000 prize on November 25 during the opening ceremony of the 37th edition of the Guadalajara

Flooding on metro-area streets and avenues is an occupational hazard of the wet season and one that long-timers usually know how to manage. 

U.S. Open finalist Coco Gauff and semi-finalist Madison Keys are both pencilled in to participate in the GDL Open AKRON featuring the world’s best female tennis players, scheduled September 17 to 23 at the Pan American Tennis Center in Zapopan.

On paying their annual car taxes, car owners often have to cough up for unpaid speeding tickets—infractions that, in some cases, they maintain they were completely unaware of.   

There’s still time to register as a participant in the Guadalajara Gay Games 2023, scheduled over nine days from November 3-11.  The deadline for entries is October 1.

Viva Aerobus will operate five new routes from the new international airport in Tulum, set to open December 1.

Guadalajara city hall celebrates the second annual Día de Torta Ahogada (Torta Ahogada Day) by sponsoring the free handout of 50,000 sliced birotes (bread rolls) stuffed with chunks of shredded pork, topped with raw onion, and submerged in spicy salsa.  

Mexico’s Supreme Court has struck down local government ordinances in several Jalisco municipalities that restrict children from partaking in soccer and other street games in their neighborhoods—traditions as old as the invention of urban life in Mexico.