According to a national survey, the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Jalisco has gone up between 2011-2017 from 74 percent to 80 percent of the population. 

Armed gunmen ambushed and killed the mayor of the Jalisco municipality of Tecalitlán on the morning of Monday, July 2.

Jalisco witnessed a major changing of the guard Sunday as voters gave a big thumbs down to the usually dominant Institucional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in state and municipal elections.

According to the Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the percentage of child labor in Jalisco has plummeted by 37.1 percent in close to three years, from 251,779 in 2015 to 156,416 by the end of 2017.

A large sinkhole has resulted in the closure of the highway to Saltillo in Zapopan’s Colonia Villa de Guadalupe.   

Over 300,000 dwellings lie vacant and abandoned in Jalisco, according to the Jalisco College of Urban Architects, which emphasized that most of the units were bought on credit.