General News

The drivers of almost half the vehicles stopped at emissions inspection program checkpoints in Guadalajara have been issued with tickets for non-compliance.

Eighteen holiday makers on their way from Guadalajara to a short break in the Pacific coastal town of Rincon de Guayabitos died when their chartered bus careened into a ravine on one of the most dangerous sections of highway in Western Mexico.

Nine days after a bus accident caused the deaths of 18 people, families are again mourning relatives who perished in another fatal crash on a Nayarit highway.

A Canadian couple on their way back home after wintering at lakeside has reported a harrowing tale of being held up by bandits on the Guadalajara-Lagos de Moreno toll road (80D).

Federal legislators in Mexico’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, have voted to dismantle the Institute of Health for Well-being (Insabi), the institution created by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in 2019 that replaced the Seguro Popular, the health model formed in 2003 to serve millions of Mexicans without access to the country’s Social Security network.

Collaborators with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) have been operating a timeshare fraud scheme mostly targeting elderly American citizens, based out of Puerto Vallarta, according to the  U.S. Treasury Department.

Members of several environmental groups have filed a complaint with the Jalisco State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) citing negligence on the part of the state government for allocating insufficient funding in its 2023 budget to prevent and fight forest fires.

Pope Francis’ educational movement known as “Scholas Occurrentes” began its mission in Jalisco last week, initiating its labors in Puerto Vallarta.