The number of people reported as missing in Jalisco this year has shot up from an average of 8.9 to 14.5 per day, according to data from the Centro de Justicia para la Paz y el Desarrollo (CEPAD).

Despite the soaring number of confirmed dengue cases in Jalisco, and outbreaks reported in several Guadalajara colonias, the general population doesn’t take the illness seriously enough, a University of Guadalajara researcher said this week.

Jalisco has a new ambassador for senior citizens. Elisa Gómez Muñoz, 65, of Tonala, took up the mantle after winning municipal, regional and state elections for the post.

In the early morning hours of Friday, August 16, a fictitious terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate General — complete with smoke filling the street below hovering helicopters — may have attracted the notice of passersby as it helped train 65 personnel from Jalisco state and Guadalajara city police, K-9 units, bomb squads, emergency medical teams, firefighters, and hospital administrations.

Jalisco civil organizations diagnosed over 5,000 HIV cases in the 2018 fiscal year thanks to sufficient federal support.

Chapala is one of 15 Jalisco municipalities designated for an auditing process to examine the spending of federal funds during 2018.