The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco Police Chief Carlos Najera has denied rumors that he will take a leave of absence in order to come back refreshed under the new administration of governor Aristotles Sandoval, who takes office on March 1, 2013.
A day after Ramiro Hernandez of the PRI won the mayoral election, his defeated opponent pledged to fight the result.
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.
Poultry farmers are continuing the slaughter of chickens infected with N7N3 avian flu in the Jalisco municipalities of Tepatitlan and Acatic.
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.
Around 7,00 primary school teachers in Jalisco will take professional evaluation exams on Friday.
Jalisco’s novel electronic voting system appears to have met performance expectations, with only minor foul-ups reported during the July 1 election.
An outbreak of H7N3 (bird flu) has killed more than 210,000 birds at poultry farms in Jalisco’s Los Altos region.
See election day images in Chapala and Guadalajara.