General News

Authorities of the Wixárica Indigenous people and officials from the Jalisco Ministry of Culture have reaffirmed their commitment to protect Xapawiyemeta, a sacred site located on a high point of Lake Chapala’s Isla de los Alacranes.

Tsunami alerts were activated along the Jalisco coast following one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. 

Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro announced this week that the major upgrade to the Chapala-Guadalajara highway will be completed by December, ahead of the World Cup soccer matches scheduled for next summer in Guadalajara.

Here’s a statistic that may not come as a surprise to many: Motorcyclists are involved in one in three road accidents nationwide.

Around 90 members of the Mexican Army’s elite Special Forcesunit have been deployed to Jalisco to bolster security operations in metro Guadalajara and the Puerto Vallarta region.

Have you ever wondered how Mexico’s indigenous peoples, particularly the ancient Mesoamerican cultures like the Maya and the Aztecs, played a ball game known as “Ōllamaliztli” (in Nahuatl), involving using their hips to strike a rubber ball? This game, which is also known by other names, such as pitz and ulama, is one of the oldest in the world, dating back over 3,000 years.

Jalisco politicians, water management experts and Lake Chapala conservation activists are raising alarms over the federal government’s plan to construct an aqueduct that will carry water from the Solís Dam in Acámbaro, Guanajuato, to the city of León and other municipalities in that state’s industrial corridor.

Two Jalisco police officers have been suspended after being filmed watching a Netflix stream on a screen installed in one of the state force’s newly acquired Tesla Cybertrucks.