General News

Funding for two major infrastructure projects touted by Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro do not feature in the federal budget for 2020, announced this week by Finance Minister Arturo Herrera.

Jalisco has a new ambassador for senior citizens. Elisa Gómez Muñoz, 65, of Tonala, took up the mantle after winning municipal, regional and state elections for the post.

Lakeside residents already familiar with Fiestas Patrias celebrations along the North Shore corridor might enjoy a visit to the annual Feria del Elote, running September 13 through 16 in the nearby town of Atequiza, a suburb of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos.

In the early morning hours of Friday, August 16, a fictitious terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate General — complete with smoke filling the street below hovering helicopters — may have attracted the notice of passersby as it helped train 65 personnel from Jalisco state and Guadalajara city police, K-9 units, bomb squads, emergency medical teams, firefighters, and hospital administrations.

The number of people reported as missing in Jalisco this year has shot up from an average of 8.9 to 14.5 per day, according to data from the Centro de Justicia para la Paz y el Desarrollo (CEPAD).

Jalisco civil organizations diagnosed over 5,000 HIV cases in the 2018 fiscal year thanks to sufficient federal support.

Despite the soaring number of confirmed dengue cases in Jalisco, and outbreaks reported in several Guadalajara colonias, the general population doesn’t take the illness seriously enough, a University of Guadalajara researcher said this week.

Chapala is one of 15 Jalisco municipalities designated for an auditing process to examine the spending of federal funds during 2018.