Enrique Alfaro of the Citizens Movement trails Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the polls with a week to go before the election.

The number of deaths from traffic accidents in Jalisco this year is 15 percent up on 2011, according to figures released by the Jalisco Forensic Science Institute. Between January 1 and June 12, 221 people have died as a result of traffic accidents, compared to 179 in the same time period last year.

In the first three months of 2012 exports from Jalisco were 36 percent higher than in the same period of last year, according to the Jalisco State Information System (Seijal). The total value of exports from January to March this year was 11.5 billion dollars, up from 8.4 billion dollars in 2011.

Employment has risen steadily in Jalisco in 2012, with 21,275 new jobs created since the turn of the year. If growth continues at this rate Jalisco will surpass last year’s total of 41,950 jobs created and could reach the milestone of 50,000.

The second Jalisco gubernatorial debate provided little drama for a modest television audience early on Sunday.

Candidates for Jalisco governor may be scoring points with voters by opposing two major water infrastructure works but they won’t have much to say in the matter should they win the July 1 election.