General News

Mexican citizens living in Jalisco will be asked to vote in a referendum on whether the state should remain in the “Pacto Fiscal,” a four-decade-old measure in which sales taxes from Mexico’s 32 states are put into a fund, supposedly to be redistributed more “equitably” by the federal government.

Ajijic’s traditional Regatta de Globos has been definitively cancelled for the second year running, in accordance with a state mandate prohibiting all mass gatherings for September festivities as a safety precaution against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Several hundred devout Catholics took part in a march this week in Guadalajara repudiating the recent decision of the Mexican Supreme Court that declared the criminalization of abortion unconstitutional.

The immediate cost of flood relief and repairs in Jalisco communities ravaged by hurricanes and storms over the past few weeks is likely to soar to more than 500 million pesos ($US25 million), Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week.

Although the Jalisco government has been patting itself on the back for overseeing the relatively smooth process of restarting face-to-face classes after an 18-month hiatus, not all is completely well with the educative infrastructure in the state, the State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) revealed in a report released this week.

The attendance figure during the first week of face-to-face classes at Jalisco primary and secondary schools (education basica) was 84.4 percent, Governor Enrique Alfaro announced this week.

Did meteorologists miscalculate the intensity of the 2021 rainy season?

A Tlaquepaque householder surveys the havoc caused by floodwater that poured into the Ojo de Agua neighborhood in the early hours of Saturday, September 4, after heavy rains caused a nearby reservoir to overflow.