During a public works unveiling ceremony this week, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval reiterated, in the form of both a formal statement of solidarity and a statement enumerating monies so far invested, his and his administration’s dedication to improving the lot of Tonala, the oft-beleaguered and neglected municipality in the southeast Guadalajara metropolitan area (ZMG).

It seems as if every village in Mexico with an old church and a few decently-preserved adobe buildings glowing in the fading golden light of late afternoon wants a slice of the Pueblo Magico pie.

This majestic fiber-glass creature is one of 39 prehistoric and extant beasts endemic to the state of Jalisco that are “roaming” the central divider of Avenida Aldolfo Horn in the municipality of Tlajomulco.

The Jalisco state legislature lost its only congressman from the left-wing Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) when Saul Galindo was murdered at his ranch in Tomatlan on the morning of Thursday, December 28.

Jalisco’s Department of Education (SEJ), due in no small part to September’s devastating earthquake’s, has acquired 100 seismic alarms, to be installed in schools around the state’s most earthquake-prone municipalities.

If anybody was laboring under the delusion that having a million-plus following on Instagram somehow conferred invulnerability, then the murder in Zapopan last week of Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, known online as the “Pirate of Culiacán,” will be a sobering wakeup call.