General News

While inhabitants lament seeing absolutely no progress to enhance Ajijic’s status as a Pueblo Mágico destination, Chapala tourism Director Griselda Alcántar reports that representatives of the municipal government and the Magic Town Citizen’s Committee are actively involved in a series of workshops organized by the state government to analyze current problems and hash out strategies for the future.

An intense storm in the early hours of Wednesday flooded out 50 homes in several Tlajomulco subdivisions.

Predictably, International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Tuesday, August 31, was marked in contrasting ways by families of missing persons in Jalisco and the government that runs this state.

Jalisco’s revamped mandatory emissions testing program for privately owned vehicles, known as Verificacion Responsable (Responsible Verification), began its second year of operation this month.

Despite the decreasing number of confirmed cases of Covid-19, the Jalisco government will not be changing its protocols designed to reduce transmission of the virus, at least until the end of September.

A Canadian man who had rented a vacation property in the Villanova subdivision in Jarretaderas, Nayarit, together with his five-year-old son, was discovered lifeless by the owner of the house.

The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has decided to enter the telecommunications market and is offering cellphone and internet services through its subsidiary CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (TEIT).

The recent drug cartel violence that exploded in Jalisco and Guanajuato was repeated two days later on Mexico’s northern border, with arson attacks on convenience stores and vehicles, as well as random shootings, reported in Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Rosarito and Ciudad Juarez.