The Jalisco Health Department will mount a large open-air exposition in the city center highlighting the follies of smoking on World No Tobacco Day, Sunday, May 31.

Residents of the small village of La Villita in the Jalisco municipality of Tala were woken in the early hours of Sunday morning by a fierce odor of gasoline that burned their throats and made their heads ache.

Could tequila reduce diabetes? No, but researchers at the Center for Investigation and Advanced Studies in Irapuato, Guanajuato have identified a substance in the agave plant (which tequila is made from) called agavinas that reduces glucose levels.

Residents of Temacapulin, soon to be inundated to make way for a dam, have set up road blocks on the outskirts of the northeastern Jalisco town to restrict the entry of state officials.

State legislators from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) have asked the State Electoral Institute (IEPC) to carry out a “public vote” on the legalization of marijuana.

A tourist town like Tapalpa — given “Pueblo Magico” status 12 years ago — should probably have a more forward looking mayor.