General News

Jalisco has opened a special prosecutor’s office to investigate cases of missing persons – the first state in Mexico to do so.

Avocados may be in short supply and at their highest price for years, but that isn’t stopping the enterprising folks of the Jalisco town of Concepcion de Buenos Aires from attempting to set a Guinness record

Last Sunday, five of Mexico’s most ubiquitous agricultural products were brought together in a hamlet tucked into the hills 30 minutes south of Lake Chapala to create a comically outsized quantity – one which they hoped would gain entrance into the leger of the Guinness Book of World Records – of one of the country’s most ubiquitous culinary exports, guacamole.

The official unemployment rate in Jalisco fell to 2.34 percent in July, the lowest level in recorded history, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (Inegi).

It’s been a memorable few days for Jalisco lawmaker Pedro Kumamoto, who in 2015 shocked the political establishment by running as an independent candidate and winning a seat in the state legislature aged just 27.

In a series of public referendums held in 25 Jalisco municipalities last Sunday, jaliscienses  gave an overwhelming thumbs up to the administrations of mayors belonging to the fledgling Citizens Movement (MC).

Following the Trump administration’s controversial decision to scrap DACA, the program initiated under President Obama in 2012 which offers temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children, leaders and organizations across Mexico are making overtures of welcome to the nearly 600,000 people – so-called Dreamers – who potentially face deportation to Mexico.

Three centers dedicated to the nutrition and education of economically disadvantaged children that operated under the banner of famed Mexican soccer player Rafael Marquez have shut their doors, much to the dismay of many parents.