General News

Mazatlan is the music mecca of Mexico, or at least that’s the word around town. You can see signs of it everywhere, from banda, Mexican ballads, mariachis, and the sweet sound of Jazz and blues, rock, folk, country and classical music.

One week after Hurricane Patricia’s cyclonic winds devastated large swaths of the southern Jalisco, seasonal weather patterns again combined to disrupt the lives of local residents.

Holiday events & gift ideas

The holidays are quickly approaching. To help make your holiday a little bit brighter – and shopping for friends, family and neighbors a little easier – our team has compiled a list of holiday events and creative gifts ideas that give back to the community.

The following foods and materials have been requested by the Red Cross to send to needy families on the Jalisco coast.  Please do not donate clothes, shoes or medicines, they ask.

State police officers have ejected around 20 private security guards from the Tenacatita beach zone in southern Jalisco, opening the way for total public access to the popular beach for the first time in more than five years.

Members of the Bahia de Banderas Fire Department can now fight vehicle and grass fires, home content blazes and exploding propane tanks with renewed confidence thanks to the arrival of a used fire engine from San Jose, California. 

State authorities are lending their support to a campaign in which hotels and restaurants on Jalisco’s southern coastline will offer tourists attractive discounts, as the area tries to get back on its feet in the wake of Hurricane Patricia.

Teams evaluating the destructive toll taken by Hurricane Patricia say at least 9,000 homes on Jalisco’s southern coastline have suffered some kind of damage, many of them irreparably.

Personnel from the state Social Development Agency (Sedesol) are going door-to-door to make an inventory of the damages.