General News

Jalisco Governor-elect Enrique Alfaro has cut all ties with his party, the Citizens Movement (MC), saying he want to govern for “everyone in the state.”

The local anti-noise movement has come up with a solution to provide better oversight of rowdy businesses and neighbors.

New rules regarding gender equity in Jalisco’s state and municipal elections appear to have paid off with 31 women – a record number – elected to mayorships.   

According to a national survey, the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Jalisco has gone up between 2011-2017 from 74 percent to 80 percent of the population. 

A local tourism fair titled “Feria Jalisco Turismo Para Todos” will fill the Plaza Liberación in downtown Guadalajara this weekend.

Armed gunmen ambushed and killed the mayor of the Jalisco municipality of Tecalitlán on the morning of Monday, July 2.

For the first time, the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara has launched “a call to civil society” (convocatoria) for the submission of projects to “support communities” in the states of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Colima and Nayarit.

Jalisco witnessed a major changing of the guard Sunday as voters gave a big thumbs down to the usually dominant Institucional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in state and municipal elections.