The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has refused to lower the $US50 million bail for Naason Joaquin Garcia, the leader of the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo church who faces multiple sex abuse charges in California.
Jalisco Health Secretary Fernando Petersen Aranguren has warned that the chances of contracting the mosquito-borne disease dengue will increase significantly once the rainy season commences in earnest later this month.
Five people are known to have died while several others are still missing after a river burst its banks and flooded the small town of San Gabriel, located in the south of Jalisco about 30 kilometers north-west of Ciudad Guzman.
Work on cleaning the muddy streets of San Gabriel after the small Jalisco town was flooded out during a recent storm is almost complete, reports Víctor Hugo Roldán, head of Civil Protection in the state.
A string of Mexican passport applicants have recently fallen for fraudulent online “predators,” say local newspaper reports.
Tweeting after he sat down for breakfast Thursday with U.S. Consul General Robin Matthewman, Jalisco Governor Enrique Ramirez said, “One thing is clear; in Jalisco we have a great working relationship, respect and friendship with our northern neighbor.”
The Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) has revealed that a bacterial infection detected at 14 public and private hospitals in Guadalajara has affected 67 people, and possibly been the cause of two deaths.
Even though the federal government has committed to sending 6,000 members of its National Guard to the southern border with Guatemala to deal with the migrant crisis there, the state of Jalisco will be getting its full complement of officers from the newly created federal security force, Alfonso Durazo, Mexico’s secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, revealed this week.
A pharmaceutical business linked to Carlos Lomelí Bolaños, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s point man in Jalisco, has received government contracts to the tune of 164 million pesos in 2019, according to an investigation by the independent agency Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad (MCCI).
