The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Work on metropolitan Guadalajara’s fourth light train (Tren Ligero) line will begin this year, regardless of whether the federal government approves any funding, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week, after laying the first stone of a new Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG) campus in Tlajomulco.
Practices such as docking a dog’s tail or clipping its ears for aesthetic reasons could soon become unlawful in Jalisco.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro last week announced a major replanning of his government’s Covid-19 strategy, eliminating most of the current restrictions on business, cultural, social, religious and sports activities, and allowing gatherings of up to 300 people without the need to request a special permit.
The Jalisco government will permit schools in the state to schedule voluntary ”academic monitoring groups” for up to nine students at a time, as of March 1.
Following similar trends in the United States and other Mexican states, Covid-19 hospitalizations in Jalisco have dropped in the past two weeks, leading to speculation that Governor Enrique Alfaro is ready to lift the restrictions imposed over the past month.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has congratulated his own administration after the state dipped into the yellow Covid-19 medium risk category for the first time.
For the first time in 15 years, Jalisco has edged past Michoacan as the leading receiver of remittances from the United States, research from the BBVA bank has revealed.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro boasted this week of internal government data that shows a significant reduction in crime since he took office in December 2018.
Several state lawmakers are urging the state government to establish “preferential” hours for over 60s to visit supermarkets during the current Covid-19 contingency.