The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Despite disagreeing with Mexico’s president on the role of the armed forces in the country’s law enforcement strategy, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro vowed to “close ranks” with federal authorities and “not be distracted by the political debate,” in order to preserve “a fluid coordination” between the different levels of governments, and maintain law and order in the state.
A judge has ruled that Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartel leaders of the 1980s, can be freed from prison to serve out the remainder of his 40-year sentence in home confinement.
While inhabitants lament seeing absolutely no progress to enhance Ajijic’s status as a Pueblo Mágico destination, Chapala tourism Director Griselda Alcántar reports that representatives of the municipal government and the Magic Town Citizen’s Committee are actively involved in a series of workshops organized by the state government to analyze current problems and hash out strategies for the future.
A shipment of 147,000 doses of the Chinese-manufactured CanSino Covid-19 vaccine sent to Jalisco last week is being made available to unvaccinated adults aged over 18 or anyone who has not yet had a booster shot.
Predictably, International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Tuesday, August 31, was marked in contrasting ways by families of missing persons in Jalisco and the government that runs this state.
On February 23, 1983, after the Royal Yacht Britannia drew up in the port of Puerto Vallarta, Queen Elizabeth II walked down the gangway to be greeted by President Miguel de la Madrid, Vallarta Mayor Jorge Leobardo Lepe García and Jalisco Governor Flavio Romero Velasco.
Despite the decreasing number of confirmed cases of Covid-19, the Jalisco government will not be changing its protocols designed to reduce transmission of the virus, at least until the end of September.
After an 11-year pause due to a slew of legal challenges, work restarted on the Zapotillo Dam in northern Jalisco last weekend, a move that many hope signals “the beginning of the end” to Guadalajara’s chronic water shortages.
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has decided to enter the telecommunications market and is offering cellphone and internet services through its subsidiary CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (TEIT).
