The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco’s First Lady, Lorena Arriaga, who heads the state Family Development Agency (DIF), was ridiculed on social networks this month for delivering unhealthy candy bars to impoverished indigenous children instead of nutritious food supplies.
At least four people were killed in Jalisco on Sunday, after tropical storm Manuel made landfall near the port of Manzanillo, Colima and proceeded to wreak havoc across western Mexico.
Four men aged between 18 and 24 have been charged in connection with the murder of six young men and a 38-year-old waiter in Lagos de Moreno in July.
National Action Party (PAN) state legislator Gabriela Andalon has submitted an initiative to regulate marches and demonstrations in Jalisco that could provoke the wrath of defenders of civil rights.
Legislator Hector Pizano Ramos has submitted a proposal to the Jalisco Congress that would increase the terms of mayors in the state from three to four years.
Overpopulation at Jalisco’s prisons has decreased this year, mainly thanks to large numbers of federal inmates being transferred to penitentiaries in other states.
Federal police arrested a man driving a truck laden with over a ton of marijuana in northern Jalisco this week.
Six private hospitals in Jalisco have been slapped with a fine of more than 14 million pesos for price fixing, according to information released by the Federal Competition Commission (CFC).
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has instructed his secretary general to send a package of penal reforms to the State Congress that would see terms of life imprisonment imposed for certain crimes, including murder with aggravating circumstances, murder of a police officer, feminicide (the killing of females by males because they are female) and parricide (killing one’s father, mother or other close relatives).
