General News

Hardly an eyebrow was raised this week after a clandestine gravesite containing 16 bodies – 14 men and two women – was discovered in the Agua Escondida neighborhood of Tonala, on the outskirts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has voiced his opposition to Mexico signing on to the “Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem.”

Ajijic was axed from the running while Tlaquepaque stood out as Jalisco’s star among the ten places designated as new Pueblo Mágico destinations.

The corpses of two U.S. citizens have been discovered among the human remains kept in refrigerated trailer trucks utilized as mobile morgues by Jalisco’s oversaturated Forensic Medical Services (SEMEFO) facility, according to an article highlighted on the front page of the October 2 print edition of the Guadalajara daily Milenio.

Despite his previous doubts about the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to Mexico’s poorest denizens, this country’s president-elect is expected to instruct his party’s legislators to give a thumbs up to the updated version, to be known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

San Miguel de Allende has been selected as the American Capital of Culture 2019 by the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals.

An initiative that would see establishments fined starting in 2020 if they fail to provide biodegradable plastic bags, containers, straws and cups to their customers has been approved by the main body of the Jalisco State Congress.