General News

Branches of the state government, including the office of the Attorney General and the Jalisco Women’s Institute, have signed a pledge of collaboration which has at its core sensitivity training for those public employees who frequently deal with female victims of violence.

When Valeria and Patricia legally registered their infant daughter Mia Isabella, Wednesday, January 3, 2018, they became the first gay couple to do so in the state of Jalisco.

Last week, this newspaper reported on Jalisco’s recent employment coup; the state was the country’s top job creator for 2017, topping the State of Mexico and CDMX.

Ever since allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein surfaced last year, sexual assault and harassment have taken up a significant portion of the world’s news bandwidth.

The alcohol business, like many industries, is like a collection of Russian nesting dolls, a few corpulent specimens holding a series of increasingly smaller enterprises inside their capacious interiors. 

Residents of downtown Zapopan – as well as visitors to its historic center – heaved a collective sigh of relief this week as the new traffic tunnel at the convergence of Avenidas Americas/Avila Camacho/Laureles finally opened.

Those renting properties through the hospitality service Airbnb in the state of Jalisco will face a three-percent tax, to be applied sometime during the second trimester of this year.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval reckons the corruption scandals that have tainted the image of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of late will not influence  voters in the July 1 elections in this state.