Following the hike in fines for traveling the roads of Jalisco without a seatbelt, the state government is rolling out a new campaign to remind citizens to buckle up on the road.

Having been closed last weekend due to heavy rain and snowfall, access to the Nevado de Colima national park was opened up to 4x4 vehicles.

The number of foreign tourists visiting the state of Jalisco has still not returned to the pre-crisis/swine flu levels of 2007 and 2008, Governor Emilio Gonzalez noted in his fifth annual report.

In a controversial, chaotic and contested primary election, Fernando Guzman Perez has won the nomination of the incumbent National Action Party (PAN) for governor of Jalisco.

Tlajomulco Mayor Enrique Alfaro Ramirez has been chosen to lead a three-party coalition in Jalisco's gubernatorial election on July 1.

The Jalisco Family Development Agency (DIF) has so far collected 37.7 tons of food and clothing to be delivered by truck to the drought-plagued Tarahumara indigenous people of northern Mexico.