General News

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).

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.

An intense storm in the early hours of Wednesday flooded out 50 homes in several Tlajomulco subdivisions.

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.

Jalisco’s revamped mandatory emissions testing program for privately owned vehicles, known as Verificacion Responsable (Responsible Verification), began its second year of operation this month.