The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
With winter just around the corner, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has called on the population to get flu shots and avoid a health crisis similar to the recent dengue epidemic in the state.
At least a dozen dogs died in a single day in Jocotepec after picking up some type of poisonous substance at four different points in the town on Wednesday, November 13.
Prior to delivering his first annual state-of-the-state address (informe) this week, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro addressed how his administration has fared in the battle against crime since he took office almost one year ago.
Working for almost two weeks, personnel from Jalisco’s Forensic Sciences Institute have unearthed 30 bodies stuffed into around 70 plastic bags and buried in a mass grave in the El Zapote neighborhood of Tlajomulco, on the outskirts of Guadalajara.
The satellite town of Zapotlanejo has continued its record-breaking accomplishments during its Day of the Dead festival.
In 1564, navigator Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and 500 men set sail in five ships from the port of Barra de Navidad to the Philippines, where he established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies.
In recent years, the town of Zapotlanejo, located ten miles east of Guadalajara, has staked a claim to fame by breaking the Guinness record – on various occasions – for constructing the tallest ever catrina.
Jalisco is advancing in a positive direction but there is “still much work to do,” concluded Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro at the end his first informe (state-of-the-state address) held November 6 in the Jalisco Congress building.
Twenty-nine women this week graduated from the first course held in Mexico for female firefighters.
