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Looking Back: A review of May news from the last 60 years

1966

Six universities join for summer school

Six U.S. universities will join with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) to form a summer school in Guadalajara this summer. Classes will be held at ITESO’s new campus in Las Fuentes. The six-week program will offer fully accredited courses in language, literature, psychology, history, political science and fine arts. The program will have the only new and completely furnished language lab in the city. Professors will be drawn from the six universities (Georgetown U., Gonzaga U., St. Louis U., Loyola U., St. Bonaventure and Holy Cross), as well as from a selected group of Mexican scholars. 


El Mencho killing fallout: 806 torched vehicles

The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office has received 806 reports of vehicles set on fire during the wave of violence that followed the death of drug lord Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, ”El Mencho,” who was killed in a military operation on February 22 in Tapalpa.

Extreme heat alert continues in Jalisco

The stifling heat shows no signs of letting up across nearly all of Mexico.

Twenty-eight states were on high alert this week, with temperatures reaching 45°C (113°F) in several regions on Monday, April 27.

The thermometer has been especially unforgiving in western Mexico.

More human remains found at ‘ranch of horror’

The Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco missing persons collective says it has discovered additional human remains at the notorious Rancho Izaguirre, a property previously used by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a forced recruitment and possible extermination center.