The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
This week, people between 18 and 29 years of age in 91 municipalities of Jalisco received their first anti-Covid jabs, as the initial stage of the federal Covid vaccination program drew to a close.
The Health Committee in the Jalisco Congress has approved an initiative that would enshrine in state law penalties for violators of preventive measures established during a health contingency, including the use of face masks.
The son of a Jalisco state legislator for the Morena Party was shot to death last weekend during a visit to a local cemetery in Guadalajara.
In an unprecedented move, the Jalisco Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) annulled the recent mayoral election in the municipality of Tlaquepaque on the grounds that a video posted online by the former archbishop of Guadalajara violated regulations governing campaigning.
Mexican citizens living in Jalisco will be asked to vote in a referendum on whether the state should remain in the “Pacto Fiscal,” a four-decade-old measure in which sales taxes from Mexico’s 32 states are put into a fund, supposedly to be redistributed more “equitably” by the federal government.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has accused local media outlets of generating false perceptions about the level of insecurity in the state.
Several hundred devout Catholics took part in a march this week in Guadalajara repudiating the recent decision of the Mexican Supreme Court that declared the criminalization of abortion unconstitutional.
A fall in the number of “active” Covid-19 cases over the past three weeks has prompted the Jalisco Health Board to relax a few of its restrictions on gatherings.
Although the Jalisco government has been patting itself on the back for overseeing the relatively smooth process of restarting face-to-face classes after an 18-month hiatus, not all is completely well with the educative infrastructure in the state, the State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) revealed in a report released this week.
