General News

It’s hard to keep Pedro Kumamoto, Jalisco’s young independent legislator, out of the news for long.

The Jalisco state government this week signed up to the United Nations’ HeforShe initiative to promote gender equality around the world.

Following on from last year’s dramatic umbrella montage, around 50 large pigs have taken up residence in the center of Tlaquepaque.  

Thanks to 140 new recruits, the Salvando Vidas anti drunk-driving program (el Torito) kicked off a new era last weekend, substantially increasing the numbers of drivers breathalyzed and DUI transgressors sent to sober up in jail.

For the first time in its history, the Mexican Episcopal Conference (Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano), the organization of bishops that represents the official leadership body of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, has called on the faithful to participate in a nationwide protest.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has vowed not to allow a war between drug cartels to be waged in the state after six suspected members of the Sinaloa cartel were abducted at gunpoint from a Puerto Vallarta restaurant/bar in the early hours of Monday.

The fledgling Citizen’s Movement (MC) party that scored significant successes in last year’s mid-term elections in Jalisco – led by poster boy Enrique Alfaro, the mayor of Guadalajara – may be facing the biggest political crisis of its existence following the arrest of the presumed financial operator of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), Sergio Kurt Schmidt Sandoval.

Jalisco Governor Aristóteles Sandoval and Jocotepec Mayor Manuel Haro (center) visited the Manos Creativas de Maíz workshop in the south shore town of San Cristóbal Zapotitlán