General News

The Jalisco Special Prosecutors Office for Human Rights (FEDH) has presented sufficient evidence for charges to be brought against five state investigators accused of physical, psychological and sexual abuse against a woman they arrested in October, 2018, in the municipality of Chapala.

Despite the efforts to promote gender parity in Jalisco’s elections, the June 6 vote had a mixed outcome for women running in races for municipal, state and federal positions.

Four people traveling in a single car lost their lives when a trailer collided with vehicles at a toll road payment booth near Jalostotitlán on the autopista between Guadalajara and Lagos de Moreno.

A judge has extended the pre-trial detention of three Ixtlahuacan de Membrillos municipal police officers arrested in connection with the death of Giovanni Lopez, the 30-year-old construction worker who died in mysterious circumstances a few hours after being taken into custody on the evening of May 4, 2020.

Despite the current surge in Covid-19 infection rates across Mexico, the Soriana supermarket chain has agreed to let senior citizens return to their labor as bag packers.

Jalisco this week passed the two million mark for Covid shots administered to residents of the state.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has initiated the first phase of a program that will eventually train between 300 and 350 caregivers working in public and private children’s shelters in Jalisco.

Due to falling infections and hospitalization numbers, the Jalisco Health Department has reduced the number of public hospital beds designated for patients with Covid-19.