General News

Changes to the wording of a Zapopan municipal governance regarding playing soccer in the street has provoked a fierce response, especially from professional players whose skills were nurtured by informal kick-abouts en la calle.

Puerto Vallarta Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez this week reopened the reconstructed pedestrian suspension bridge over the River Cuale that collapsed in August of last year following the passage of Hurricane Nora.

They are regarded by many as a scourge on society, a cancer that ruins the lives of thousands, ensnaring Mexico in a vice-like grip of perpetual violence and constant fear.

Relatives of former Jalisco Governor Aristóteles Sandoval have criticized the lack of progress made by state authorities to find those responsible for his murder, a shooting death that occurred in a Puerto Vallarta bar December 18, 2020.

Fines for car owners who fail to get an emissions inspection (often referred to in the United States as a “smog check”) will kick in as of March, 2023 the Jalisco state government has announced.

In a joint Mexican Army and National Guard operation, Antonio Oseguera, the younger brother of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho),  was arrested at a house in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga December 20.

Winners received prizes this week in a competition featuring more than 100 photographs taken by Jalisco police and traffic officers, as well as other security personnel. 

With the Christmas and New Year’s holidays now on the threshold, many employees of local government entities will taking off for two weeks of vacation time.