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.

A string of Mexican passport applicants have recently fallen for fraudulent online “predators,” say local newspaper reports.

The Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) has revealed that a bacterial infection detected at 14 public and private hospitals in Guadalajara has affected 67 people, and possibly been the cause of two deaths.