Three days after former Tequila Mayor Diego Rivera Navarro was detained — accused of converting city hall into a cartel collection agency — Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus arrived in the Pueblo Mágico to deliver an important message:  Tequila will not be abandoned.

Following last week’s report in this newspaper on the escalating measles crisis and the mobilization of university brigades, the Jalisco Health Department’s campaign to curb the outbreak has reached a critical phase. 

Obligatory face mask protocols to stem the spread of measles are currently being implemented at elementary-level educational institutions in the Guadalajara metro area. Similar preventive measures may be recommended as needed in communities elsewhere in the state.

A powerful, jarring sound from cell phones interrupted Sunday afternoon for millions of residents across central Mexico, including Jalisco.

Last week, Tequila Mayor Diego Rivera Navarro was sitting in his office overseeing the affairs of one of Jalisco’s most popular Pueblos Mágicos.

This week, the Morena Party presidente municipal languishes in a cell in Guadalajara’s Puente Grande prison, accused of transforming the town hall into a criminal enterprise, extorting the very tequila industry that gives the region its name, and pledging allegiance to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

For the third time, the Jalisco State Congress has voted against reforming the Civil Registry Law to allow transgender children to change their gender identity on birth certificates, openly defying a mandate from Mexico’s Supreme Court.