Jalisco struck by nearly five murders per day in 2013
The murder rate in Jalisco has soared in 2013, with an average of 4.7 killings per day in the first two and a half months of the year.
The murder rate in Jalisco has soared in 2013, with an average of 4.7 killings per day in the first two and a half months of the year.
Following the assassination of Jesus Gallegos on March 9, hotelier Enrique Ramos Flores was sworn in as Jalisco’s new Secretary of Tourism the following Friday.
Jalisco officials are investigating the case of a seven-year-old boy who died on Saturday, March 9 following an allegedly violent bullying incident at school.
Just an hour’s drive west of Guadalajara, the town of Teuchitlan is the place to visit for spring equinox celebrations this weekend.
A new outbreak of bird flu in the state of Guanajuato has spread to 18 farms, according to agricultural officials.
As one of ten austerity measures proposed by Governor Aristoteles Sandoval, the Jalisco government is selling 500 vehicles designated to state officials in the previous administration.
Responding to an anonymous tip-off, state police officers discovered two Bengal tigers at an abandoned drug lab in northern Jalisco last week.
More than half of the inmates housed in Jalisco’s prisons system could be released if the State Congress finally approves penal reforms first proposed back in 2008.
With the aim of heightening security and justice in Jalisco, the nascent Aristoteles Sandoval administration is pushing ahead with plans to create a new Prosecutor General’s Office (Fiscalia General de Jalisco).