The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A bill sent to the federal Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which would have increased state control over the nation’s electricity sector, failed to reach the necessary number of votes required to change Mexico’s Constitution.
State and federal authorities say they have made further advances in the investigation into the assassination of former Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval, who was shot to death in a Puerto Vallarta bar in December 2019.
Wednesday, Jalisco legislators approved a landmark amendment to the state’s civil code defining marriage as a “union between two people,” instead of between a man and a woman.
This week, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Graeme C. Clark visited Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro, together with Lewis Coughlin, the Canadian consul in Guadalajara, and Stéphanie Allard-Gomez, Quebec’s Delegate General to Mexico.
Zapopan municipal authorities this week highlighted the inclusiveness of the current administration, posting on social media an image of “proud Zapopana” Paloma González concluding the process of changing official documents to reflect her gender identity.
As the quantity of anti-Covid vaccines applied each day in Jalisco declines, the state government is winding down operations at inoculation venues set up last year to handle large numbers of people on a daily basis.
Ramos Dog Shelter in the pueblo of Jaluco in Cihuatlan is full.
Members of brigades searching last week for disappeared relatives in the Tlajomulco municipality say they have found indications of clandestine gravesites at several properties.
Criminal violence took a heavy toll on the Jocotepec government last week when a City Hall official and two local police officers were shot and killed in separate incidents.
