A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has refused to lower the $US50 million bail for Naason Joaquin Garcia, the leader of the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo church who faces multiple sex abuse charges in California.

Jalisco Health Secretary Fernando Petersen Aranguren has warned that the chances of contracting the mosquito-borne disease dengue will increase significantly once the rainy season commences in earnest later this month.

Work on cleaning the muddy streets of San Gabriel after the small Jalisco town was flooded out during a recent storm is almost complete, reports Víctor Hugo Roldán, head of Civil Protection in the state. 

Tweeting after he sat down for breakfast Thursday with U.S. Consul General Robin Matthewman, Jalisco Governor Enrique Ramirez said, “One thing is clear; in Jalisco we have a great working relationship, respect and friendship with our northern neighbor.”

Even though the federal government has committed to sending 6,000 members of its National Guard to the southern border with Guatemala to deal with the migrant crisis there, the state of Jalisco will be getting its full complement of officers from the newly created federal security force, Alfonso Durazo, Mexico’s secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, revealed this week.

Five people are known to have died while several others are still missing after a river burst its banks and flooded the small town of San Gabriel, located in the south of Jalisco about 30 kilometers north-west of Ciudad Guzman.