Officers from the state Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía General del Estado de Jalisco or FGE) were targeted in four separate attacks coordinated by an organized crime group on the morning of Friday, June 21.

One of Mexico’s most promising young soccer players will be held in prison for at least six months after being charged with causing the deaths of a newly married Guadalajara couple last weekend.

Jessy Pacheco, the medical student who was reported missing last weekend in Guadalajara, is “safe and sound” and has returned to Dallas, Texas, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro announced Friday.  Authorities expressed concerns that Pacheco had been abducted after his friend was shot to death outside a nightclub s Colonia Providencia in the early hours  of Sunday, June 15.

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our May editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

Following last weekend’s tragic incident (see story page one), increased police vigilance is urgently required in the Colonia Providencia restaurant zone, says Aldo de Anda, president of the local restaurant chamber. 

Wednesday, 101 Jalisco firefighters pose for a photo at the Jalisco Government Palace before heading for the Canadian province of Alberta to help battle a series of fierce blazes raging since the end of last month.