One woman died after a passenger bus transporting a children’s soccer team from Villa de Álvarez in the state of Colima to a tournament in Mazatlan, Sinaloa veered off the Guadalajara-Tepic toll road (autopista) in the early hours of Wednesday, May 10.

The drivers of almost half the vehicles stopped at emissions inspection program checkpoints in Guadalajara have been issued with tickets for non-compliance.

Nine days after a bus accident caused the deaths of 18 people, families are again mourning relatives who perished in another fatal crash on a Nayarit highway.

Federal legislators in Mexico’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, have voted to dismantle the Institute of Health for Well-being (Insabi), the institution created by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in 2019 that replaced the Seguro Popular, the health model formed in 2003 to serve millions of Mexicans without access to the country’s Social Security network.

Members of several environmental groups have filed a complaint with the Jalisco State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) citing negligence on the part of the state government for allocating insufficient funding in its 2023 budget to prevent and fight forest fires.

Eighteen holiday makers on their way from Guadalajara to a short break in the Pacific coastal town of Rincon de Guayabitos died when their chartered bus careened into a ravine on one of the most dangerous sections of highway in Western Mexico.