State Congress passes victims’ rights bill
The Jalisco Congress has approved a bill that seeks to address victims’ rights with additional legal protection and financial restitution.
The Jalisco Congress has approved a bill that seeks to address victims’ rights with additional legal protection and financial restitution.
Children’s cancer hospital to open later this year
Discrimination and racism are “mental and psychological diseases” that must be tackled through public policy, just as a doctor cures a sick patient, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum told a rapt audience at the State Congress building Tuesday.
Jocotepec Mayor Juan O’Shea and dignitaries from Plymouth, California will exchange giant keys Friday, February 21 at a local celebration marking the official sealing of sister city ties between two communities noted for fruit production industries.
Without the excessive ostentation so common in the past – although with disproportionate security, many citizens complained – Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval walked the short distance from his Guadalajara office to the Congress building on Tuesday to deliver his first annual state-of-the-state report (informe).
Reducing the violence plaguing the state of Michoacan will take more than tough words from government officials. Many communities around the world have found that getting young persons involved in cultural activities is a tried and tested method of lessening the temptations of crime.
The Tarahumara Project, that longtime resident Libby Townsend thought would be a one time trip to aid the poverty stricken indigenous people residing on the northern rim of the Copper Canyon is now in it’s eighth year.