General News

Claudia Shenbaum, top contender for the Morena party candidacy in next year’s presidential election, included Chapala on her itinerary for a one-day visit to Jalisco  on Sunday, July 9.

Katya Echazarreta (left), the 28-year-old Jalisco native who in June of last year became the first Mexican woman to travel into space, was joined by Governor Enrique Alfaro at the start of the first aerospace camp in Mexico, “Mission Mars 2023.”

Guadalajara journalists and photographers staged a protest in the Parque Rojo Monday to demand justice for the murder of a colleague in the neighboring state of Nayarit.

In what appears to be a deadly escalation in the violent tactics employed by criminal organizations in Jalisco, four police officers and two civilians died on the evening of Tuesday July 11 when a police convoy was the target of a bomb attack in a semi-populated area of Tlajomulco, the town located 30 kilometers south of Guadalajara centro that is the seat of the large municipality extending into the metropolitan area.

Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has ended the speculation concerning his future, announcing that he will not run for president, nor seek any other political post after he finishes his six-year term in 2024.

The Plaza de las Americas, the huge plaza in downtown Zapopan facing the Basilica, will play host to a festival celebrating the southern Mexican state of Yucatan, Thursday, July 13 through Sunday, July 16.

If you want a taster of the multitude of crafts, foods and other products made in the state of Jalisco, make a bee line for downtown Guadalajara anytime over the next three weeks.

Working on an anonymous tip-off, a group of mothers who take it upon themselves to search for missing persons have discovered what could be a clandestine gravesite in the municipality of Tlajomulco containing as many as 50 corpses.