GUADALAJARA - Beware the boot: armed with 20 wheel clamps, traffic cops in Guadalajara on Tuesday started immobilizing illegally parked cars with out-of-state and foreign license plates.

MEXICO - In a bid to free up government resources to crackdown on dealers and traffickers rather than small-time users, President Felipe Calderon has proposed the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of various drugs.

GUADALAJARA - As one might expect from someone in his position, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Guillermo Rishchynski gave a prudent, if not altogether uninspiring, keynote address Thursday at the 13th Congress of the Mexican Association of Canadian Studies at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA) in Guadalajara.

GUADALAJARA - Jalisco’s health authorities have denied reports that the current outbreak of dengue in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara has turned into an an epidemic.

GUADALAJARA - Special prosecutors with the Mexican Defense Department (Sedena) say they are investigating who was the intended recipient of a 1.5-ton shipment of psuedoephedrine confiscated at the Guadalajara Airport on Saturday, October 4.