General News

A giant skeleton dressed in an elegant gown still dominates the landscape in the heart of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos following last weekend’s colorful Day of the Dead festival.

Familias sin Fronteras, a program granting short-term visas to Jaliscienses estranged from family in the United States for over ten years, saw another phase of its operation enacted earlier this week.

The organization Impulso Trans, a group dedicated to activism for transgender people in Mexico, has written a sharply-worded letter to Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval reminding him and his administration that there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure the rights and safety of the state’s trans population.

The Tlaqueparte Expo has opened in Tlaquepaque as sellers from Mexico and across the world descend on the Guadalajara suburb to offer a menagerie of artisan products.

Jalisco’s Department of Health (SSJ) has reported an alarming uptick in the number of confirmed cases of dengue, which officials believe may be in part due previously faulty practices and inexperienced leadership.

Good news at last for local motorists.

A new institution designed to tackle endemic corruption in Jalisco is one step closer to becoming a reality after the five citizens who will serve on the oversight committee (Comité de Participación Social) of the new Sistema Estatal Anticorrupcion (SEA) were sworn in this week.

Jalisco legislators have approved a measure compelling property owners who list their domiciles on Airbnb – and similar online platforms – to pay the state’s three percent hospitality tax, which is obligatory for all hotels and B&Bs operating in the state.