General News

As coastal communities brace for yet another tropical storm (“Norma,” see sidebar), clean-up work continues in the wake of Hurricane Lidia, which pummeled Mexico’s Pacific coast a week ago.

Jalisco Health Secretary Fernando Petersen said the SSJ will not be offering the Cuban Abdala and Russian Sputnik Covid-19 vaccines during the winter season but would join any campaign that uses either the Pfizer or Moderna brands that protect against the most recent variants of the virus.

Around 300 restaurants in Jalisco have reopened their designated smoking areas thanks to legal action taken by the National Restaurant Chamber (Canirac), Mario Ávalos, president of the chamber’s Jalisco branch, said this week.

Jalisco Health Secretary Fernando Petersen says almost 2.3 million flu shots will be available statewide in Mexico’s annual influenza vaccination program, which runs from this month though the end of February 2024.

Eduardo Cervantes Aguilar, the former mayor of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, was gunned down by an unknown assailant Wednesday, October 18 while seated in his car parked on the side of the Chapala-Guadalajara highway across the road from the entrance to the town.

Jalisco is one of the most biodiverse states in Mexico, containing 80 percent of the country’s existing vegetation types, along with approximately 36 percent of its mammal population and 53 percent of its birds.  

Cathey Merrill poses next to the display of whimsical clay figures produced by the famed Medrano clan of Tonalá, Jalisco.

Two people died after category four Hurricane Lidia hit land just south of Puerto Vallarta on the early evening of Tuesday, October 10, one in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit and the other in Pihuamo, Jalisco, more than 80 kilometers from the coast.