General News

Catholic priests across Jalisco are under threat from criminal gangs, senior church officials are warning.

Following last week’s cocaine bust of a shipment of bread rolls, canines working with federal customs agents at the Guadalajara International Airport this week discovered a small quantity of heroin squeezed into a candle, part of a first communion “package” ready for dispatch to the United States.

Attacks on people who have just withdrawn large sums of cash from banks, known in Spanish as “robos conejeros,” are on course for a record total in 2018.   

The Jalisco State Congress Thursday gave a thumbs up to the “Ley Antiruido” (Anti-noise Law), an initiative that will see establishments and individuals that fail to keep noise levels within permitted levels slapped with severe sanctions.

The Jalisco State Congress’ proportional representation system is unfair to the independent candidates who ran in the July 1 election, many political observers say.

Expo EnArt Tlaquepaque, a biannual trade show featuring a comprehensive range of Mexican crafts, gifts and decorative items, takes place from Tuesday, August 14 through Saturday, August 18.

Jalisco’s Transportation Department (Secretaria de Movilidad or Semov) is about to start a crackdown on vehicles circulating without up-to-date “verificación vehicular” (obligatory emissions test) stickers.

The Jalisco government will pay all the hospital costs in the United States for “Elizabeth,” the Guadalajara woman severely burned in a bus fire set by cartel members in the wake of the attempted assassination of a former state attorney general in May.