Last week’s attempt on the life of Mexico City police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch could be a harbinger of further violent confrontations between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and federal authorities, say close observers of the country’s crime scene.

Organizers of social events such as weddings, quinceañeras andanniversary parties, along with their affiliated workers (waiters, bartenders, etc.), staged a march and short demonstration in downtown Guadalajara this week, calling on the state government to provide protocols and a timeline for when they will be permitted to restart their labors.

The Jalisco state Congress is organizing six round-table meetings – open to the various sectors of the public – prior to the drafting of a bill aimed at regulating the activities of real estate professionals in the state, Citizen Movement (MC) legislator Mirza Flores Gómez announced this week.

Jalisco authorities have extended the deadline to pay the annual vehicle tax (refrendo) until the end of July.

State authorities are leading at least 70 separate investigations into assaults on medical personnel in Jalisco, according to Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.

A massive dust cloud from the Sahara Desert, which will reach Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula next week, will be a health hazard, especially for people suffering from chronic heart and respiratory diseases.