If you want a taster of the multitude of crafts, foods and other products made in the state of Jalisco, make a bee line for downtown Guadalajara anytime over the next three weeks.

Katya Echazarreta (left), the 28-year-old Jalisco native who in June of last year became the first Mexican woman to travel into space, was joined by Governor Enrique Alfaro at the start of the first aerospace camp in Mexico, “Mission Mars 2023.”

In what appears to be a deadly escalation in the violent tactics employed by criminal organizations in Jalisco, four police officers and two civilians died on the evening of Tuesday July 11 when a police convoy was the target of a bomb attack in a semi-populated area of Tlajomulco, the town located 30 kilometers south of Guadalajara centro that is the seat of the large municipality extending into the metropolitan area.

The Plaza de las Americas, the huge plaza in downtown Zapopan facing the Basilica, will play host to a festival celebrating the southern Mexican state of Yucatan, Thursday, July 13 through Sunday, July 16.

Working on an anonymous tip-off, a group of mothers who take it upon themselves to search for missing persons have discovered what could be a clandestine gravesite in the municipality of Tlajomulco containing as many as 50 corpses.

The drive to obtain a more balanced participation of men and women in Jalisco’s political arena is moving up a gear.