The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco’s Ministry of Culture, through its Museums, Exhibitions and Galleries (MEG) organization, is offering a special program to celebrate the Day of the Dead with monumental altars, folk art and interactive experiences.
Protestors taking part in the No Kings rally in Ajijic last Saturday donned inflatable frog costumes, a tactic originally inspired by the Portland Frog Brigade to counter the accusations that people protesting ICE and the National Guard deployments in U.S. cities are violent extremists.
On Tuesday, October 14, farmers across Mexico initiated a national strike, blocking key roads to demand fair prices for corn.
While often criticized for contributing to gentrification and rising property and rental costs, Airbnb’s presence in Jalisco is proving to have significant economic benefits for the region.
While Mexico has reported a sharp 32-percent rise in cases of flesh-eating screwworms across the country, Jalisco officials have declared that the state remains free of the devastating livestock parasite, thanks to strict surveillance and coordinated prevention measures.
As of Wednesday, confirmed measles cases in Mexico have risen to 5,029, with six new infections reported in the past 24 hours, according to the federal Ministry of Health.
Jalisco is experiencing one of its wettest seasons in decades, with abundant rainfall replenishing dams, boosting agriculture, and raising Lake Chapala’s water level to 71 percent capacity (as of September 30). However, the same storms have also caused destruction, prompting ten emergency declarations and claiming at least 19 lives, according to state authorities. Meteorologists from the University of Guadalajara report that rainfall across the state has already surpassed annual averages, making 2025 one of the wettest years on record.
Jalisco’s 2025-2026 winter vaccination campaign is now underway and runs until April 3, 2026.
Jalisco’s rainwater harvesting program (Nidos de Lluvia) will be expanded in 2025 with the installation of 3,300 new systems across the same number of homes, announced Ernesto Marroquín Álvarez, secretary of Integrated Water Management.
