The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo Church, will go to trial in Los Angeles June 6, the judge in the case, Stephen A. Marcus, announced this week.
In mid-April, the Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) suddenly announced that second booster Covid jabs (fourth shots) would be made available to health care workers and everyone over 60 who had received their first booster more than four months previously.
Health authorities have ramped up Covid vaccination programs in the Lake Chapala area throughout April, with AstraZeneca shots made available over the Easter vacation period at various public venues including the Chapala Malecón and the Ajijic Plaza.
The Jalisco state government has postponed the next meeting of its health board, when relaxations of Covid regulations are expected to be announced, until May 20, ten days after Mother’s Day festivities.
The number of intoxicated drivers hauled off to the drunk tank tripled during Semana Santa (Easter Week) between April 11 and 17.
Sunday afternoon, locals and visitors to Mazamitla were happily watching a display by the daring Voladores de Papantla in the main plaza of this tranquil mountain town when their peace was abruptly interrupted by the sound of rattling gunfire from nearby streets.
Jalisco Civil Protection lifeguards managed to save the life of an 82-year-old female tourist who showed no signs of life after collapsing in the sea at the Cuastecomates beach.
With the Covid-19 pandemic now waning, Jalisco’s Department of Health (SSJ) has begun ramping up a pre-rainy season campaign to prevent the spread of dengue fever, sending a brigade of agency staffers to the Chapala area to provide home dwellers with water treatment products that knock out the proliferation of disease-carrying mosquitos.
Even though many countries (and some Mexican states) have relaxed their rules regarding the use of face coverings, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said Monday that he hopes his health board will decide to continue the measure for the time being.
