General News

Jaliscienses, it seems, are especially jealous guardians of that salty, oxygen-delivering liquid without which we would quickly cease to exist: blood. 

Judging by recent berry exports to China, Dubai, Kuwait and other markets hungry for Mexican-grown fruits, Jalisco is more than pulling its weight in lessening Mexico’s dependence on exports to the United States.  

July 4, 2017 will go down in history as a great day of victory for the Wixáritari, the Native American tribe commonly known to the larger world as Mexico’s Huichol people.

According to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, at least seven women are killed each day in Mexico — a shocking statistic that María Guadalupe Ramos Ponce is determined to change.

A scene straight out of a TV crime show unfolded in Zapopan last week, involving two armed thieves in a Toyota Corolla and Zapopan Police, who used their Halcon helicopter to aid squad cars to foil carjackers. 

Tuesday, June 13, some 30 residents from the Poncitlan villages of Agua Caliente, San Pedro Itzicán, Santa María, Chalpicote and la Zapotera demonstrated outside the Governor’s offices in Guadalajara, demanding a new artesian well be drilled so they could stop using contaminated water, which is being blamed for a host of diseases plaguing their communities. 

One out of every five tapatios has been a victim of crime in the last year, according to a recent study. In addition, a national survey on public security found that only one out of 1,300 criminal cases are resolved in favor of the victims of crime in this state.

If all the laws currently on the books in Mexico were effectively enforced, the nation would resemble something akin to a utopia. But too often, the enforcement capacity of federal, state and municipal governments is ham-strung by powerful forces, often of an economic and/or cultural nature.