The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
With almost one million birds dead, Mexican authorities have declared a national animal health emergency to help prevent the spread of N7N3 avian flu from chicken farms in Jalisco to other parts of the country.
As expected, Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won the election for governor of the state of Jalisco, albeit by a much smaller margin than most opinion polls had forecast.
With Jalisco at the heart of Mexico’s methamphetamine industry, consumption of the illicit drug has increased rapidly in recent years.
An outbreak of H7N3 (bird flu) has killed more than 210,000 birds at poultry farms in Jalisco’s Los Altos region.
Mexican marines have located a clandestine drug laboratory in Jalisco near the spot where one of its helicopters crashed days earlier, killing its four occupants.
Canadians (and others) wishing to celebrate their national day on Sunday with alcohol should load up on adult beverages before the introduction of ley seca (dry law), which forbids booze sales on election day and in the period leading up to the vote.
Fear of being a victim of crime has risen 60 percent in Jalisco in the last three years, according to a study published this week by the Citizens’ Institute of Studies on Insecurity.
See election day images in Chapala and Guadalajara.