Job losses increase
Jalisco has lost 3,000 jobs during the first two months of 2013, according to official figures.
The Guadalajara Reporter
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The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco has lost 3,000 jobs during the first two months of 2013, according to official figures.
No damage or casualties were reported after an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook western Mexico on Wednesday afternoon.
Just before he announced his imminent retirement, Pope Benedict XVI set the date to elevate Guadalajara-born nun Maria Guadalupe Anastasia García Zavala to sainthood.
The federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has identified Jalisco as the home of one of Mexico’s largest illicit drug industries.
Governor-elect Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who takes office on Friday, March 1, unveiled a proposal to alter the structure of the executive branch in Jalisco last week.
Popular Jalisco Police Chief Carlos Najera will be the only member of Governor Emilio Gonzalez’s cabinet to retain his position under Aristoteles Sandoval.
A Mexican journalist has confirmed that the news of two foreign mining executives supposedly found dead in the Rio Santa Rosa was planted in the local press last week.
Emilio Gonzalez steps down next Friday, March 1 with public opinion fairly evenly split on his performance as governor of Jalisco.
Jalisco governor-elect Aristoteles Sandoval has been forced to backtrack on his polemic tweet in which he announced that he would scrap plans to flood a pueblo in the northern part of the state to make way for a major dam that is more than half finished.