Viral messages being circulated on WhatsApp saying that gangs are abducting children from Guadalajara shopping malls are totally false, the State Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia) stressed this week.

Catholic priests across Jalisco are under threat from criminal gangs, senior church officials are warning.

Attacks on people who have just withdrawn large sums of cash from banks, known in Spanish as “robos conejeros,” are on course for a record total in 2018.   

The Jalisco State Congress’ proportional representation system is unfair to the independent candidates who ran in the July 1 election, many political observers say.

Jalisco’s Transportation Department (Secretaria de Movilidad or Semov) is about to start a crackdown on vehicles circulating without up-to-date “verificación vehicular” (obligatory emissions test) stickers.

Following last week’s cocaine bust of a shipment of bread rolls, canines working with federal customs agents at the Guadalajara International Airport this week discovered a small quantity of heroin squeezed into a candle, part of a first communion “package” ready for dispatch to the United States.