General News

A 90-year-old woman who only learned how to swim 20 years ago has won a competition in which she had to traverse the entire width of the Laguna Santa Maria del Lago in Nayarit.

With the addition of courts in four criminal districts, Jalisco Tuesday became the 16th of Mexico’s 32 states to fully  implement the nation’s new oral trial justice system, known as Nuevo Sistema de Justicia Penal. 

Catholic Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, the outspoken former archbishop of Guadalajara, admitted this week that a rehab center in Tlaquepaque was used to provide shelter to priests who were known pedophiles.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval called on his compatriots in the United States to organize themselves to confront any “aggression” that might result from the “discourse of hate” employed by some of the candidates vying to occupy the Oval Office.

Jalisco state legislators are considering a proposal to introduce sanctions against anyone who discriminates against mothers who breastfeed their babies in public.

May was the most violent month of the year so far in Jalisco, with 79 reported homicides. And June hasn’t started any better, with six bodies discovered in Tonala in the early hours of the month’s first day. 

Avocados from Jalisco will soon be on supermarket shelves in the United States after an absence of almost a century.

Myth busted

The myth that women drivers are more dangerous than men has been busted once and for all!