According to state governor Aristoteles Sandoval, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has for some time been contracting foreign mercenaries, experts in different types of warfare.

Should we expect state-federal relations to plummet if leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins the presidency and former Guadalajara mayor Enrique Alfaro becomes the next governor of Jalisco on July 1 – as the polls increasingly suggest?

Monday’s disturbing violence, involving a brazen attempt on the life of former Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera and the subsequent torching of several buses (see story page one), has rattled nerves and rekindled outrage still flickering from the disappearances of three film students in March.

The corpses of three murder victims were discovered early Tuesday, May 15 at two sites located within the boundaries of Jocotepec.

A mere half of all 152 companies registered with the Tequila Regulatory Council (CRT) – the body which governs the production and sale of Jalisco’s most well-known export – are actually producing tequila on a regular basis, while the remaining half are only sporadically doing so.

This summer, eight students from Guadalajara’s ITESO university will travel to the University of Central Arkansas, as part of the 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative.