A comparison of robbery statistics from the first six months of 2016 and 2017 indicate that there has been a significant increase in larceny this year in Jalisco, in some categories more than doubling, according to the federal government’s National Public Security System (SNSP)

Jalisco state police busted three suspected drug dealers in Jocotepec on Friday, August 11.

Steps are being taken by the state Congress to update Jalisco’s penal code so as to address crimes whose emergence would have been difficult to foresee prior to the age of internet and cellphones.

The Mexican government is analyzing the possibility of importing avocados during the “high” season when exports from this country to the United States and other nations are at their highest.

In April, the Guadalajara Reporter notified its readership of a gun turn-in program which the Mexican Army, in conjunction with state and municipal governments and Mexican NGO SOS, planned to institute in Jalisco. 

At least 17,000 low-income families in 88 Jalisco municipalities will be the beneficiaries of a program to install solar panels in their homes, which could result in savings of around 5,000 pesos a year.