General News

Approximately 2,100 people reported missing in Jalisco during 2019 – the majority of them males age 15 to 35 – are still unaccounted for, the highest number for any state in Mexico.

The tax for purchasing a used vehicle in Jalisco (Impuesto sobre la adquisición de vehículos automotores usados) will go up significantly in 2020, after state legislators approved changes to the Ley de Ingresos.

Thousands of pilgrims are already swarming the Jalisco village of Cajititlán de los Reyes to manifest their devotion to the town’s religious patrons Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar, better known as the Wisemen of the Orient.

With Jocotepec’s Fiestas Patronales on the horizon in early January, Mayor José Miguel Gómez has led an initiative to regulate the use of cohetes (sky rockets) as a traditional component of the festivities.

Although laws banning single-use plastic bags and non-decomposable plastic packaging (such as straws and foam food containers) in Jalisco officially kicked in at the start of the year, stores and businesses may continue to provide them as economic sanctions won’t start until January 1, 2021.

Jocotepec police arrested a man alleged to be responsible for the fatal stabbing of a dog in the village of Zapotitán de Hidalgo on the night of Tuesday, December 17.

Jalisco Civil Protection officers restricted access to the Parque Nacional Nevado de Colima (which includes the Colima volcano) January 1 due to the inclement weather, which included heavy mist, rain and the potential for snow.

The slow process of certifying the number of deaths from dengue fever in Jalisco continues.