General News

Despite the efforts to promote gender parity in Jalisco’s elections, the June 6 vote had a mixed outcome for women running in races for municipal, state and federal positions.

A elderly man reportedly sleeping inside his home died when a ten-wagon freight train derailed and slammed into four houses June 14 in San Isidro Mazatepec in the municipality of Tala, 42 kilometers west of Guadalajara.

A judge has extended the pre-trial detention of three Ixtlahuacan de Membrillos municipal police officers arrested in connection with the death of Giovanni Lopez, the 30-year-old construction worker who died in mysterious circumstances a few hours after being taken into custody on the evening of May 4, 2020.

With Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations decreasing in Jalisco, the state’s Health Cabinet (Mesa de Salud),

Jalisco this week passed the two million mark for Covid shots administered to residents of the state.

Denizens of the United States and Mexico get on well most of the time, although the chumminess is usually put on ice when soccer players from both nations take to the playing field.

Due to falling infections and hospitalization numbers, the Jalisco Health Department has reduced the number of public hospital beds designated for patients with Covid-19.  

Former independent Jalisco legislator Pedro Kumamoto, 30, was unable to repeat his extraordinary result of 2015, failing in his bid to win the race for Zapopan mayor,