State authorities are lending their support to a campaign in which hotels and restaurants on Jalisco’s southern coastline will offer tourists attractive discounts, as the area tries to get back on its feet in the wake of Hurricane Patricia.

One week after Hurricane Patricia’s cyclonic winds devastated large swaths of the southern Jalisco, seasonal weather patterns again combined to disrupt the lives of local residents.

The following foods and materials have been requested by the Red Cross to send to needy families on the Jalisco coast.  Please do not donate clothes, shoes or medicines, they ask.

Members of the Bahia de Banderas Fire Department can now fight vehicle and grass fires, home content blazes and exploding propane tanks with renewed confidence thanks to the arrival of a used fire engine from San Jose, California. 

Teams evaluating the destructive toll taken by Hurricane Patricia say at least 9,000 homes on Jalisco’s southern coastline have suffered some kind of damage, many of them irreparably.

Personnel from the state Social Development Agency (Sedesol) are going door-to-door to make an inventory of the damages. 

Destroyed by Hurricane Jova in 2011, Barra Navidad had only just got back on its feet, after millions of dollars had been invested in rehabilitating the decimated beach zone.