Fines for driving without a current Jalisco driver’s license are to increase significantly if the State Congress approves an initiative presented this week by the legislature’s Mobility and Transport Commission.

By Jacob Atkins

Tequila lovers are looking forward to celebrating National Tequila Day this Saturday, March 16.

Not a single state official has yet to receive any kind of sanction more than one year after Jalisco installed its Fiscalía Anticorrupciónan (Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption).

Based on how merely six out of every 100 homicides were prosecuted in 2018, Jalisco Attorney General Gerardo Octavio Solís has attributed today’s high rate of impunity to ineffectual previous administrations and “too many guns on the streets.”

More than 600 Jalisciences have enrolled in Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro (Youth Constructing the Future), a national program providing apprenticeships and scholarships to 60,000 young adults in Mexico with few job prospects.

Seven state police officers assigned to the amphibious police squad based in Chapala were arrested Monday, February 18 following a spot inspection at their headquarters at the Cristiania Park.