Federal police arrested a man driving a truck laden with over a ton of marijuana in northern Jalisco this week.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has instructed his secretary general to send a package of penal reforms to the State Congress that would see terms of life imprisonment imposed for certain crimes, including murder with aggravating circumstances, murder of a police officer, feminicide (the killing of females by males because they are female) and parricide (killing one’s father, mother or other close relatives).

A local indigenous leader claims he was tortured by state police and told to falsely implicate a number of officials after being arrested last week.

August 28 marked the “Dia del Abuelo” in Mexico, leading politicians across the country to speak, purportedly in earnest, of the importance of caring for the elderly.

The Jalisco Prosecutor General’s Office (FGE) has been undermined by a “web of corruption,” the state government admitted this week that.

On Saturday, July 6, four youths went out to attend a party in the town of Lagos de Moreno and never came back.