General News

Jalisco has many things to distinguish itself on the national and international stage, be they iconic cultural exports (tequila, mariachi) culinary treasures (torta ahogada, birria) or economic achievements (currently no. 1 nationwide in employment). 

Weather patterns across Mexico are chilling its citizens – often ill-adapted to such frigid airs – to the bone, as well as throwing a wet blanket (made of snow, rain and fog) over plans vacationers might have had with regards to a popular recreational destination: the neighboring Parque Nacional Nevado de Colima.

Neither the Mexican Navy nor the federal police are welcome in several municipalities scattered around middle and southern Jalisco, a position that citizens of these locales vigorously asserted vis-a-vis protests against said entities mounted last week.

A phone call to 911 and use of a cell phone GPS tracking application guided Tonalá police to the location of a car stolen from a lakeside home, recuperation of other missing possessions and the arrest of the suspected thieves in a single day.

During a recent debate in Guadalajara concerning, among other things, the proposed legalization of marijuana in tourist areas around Mexico, Jalisco governor Aristoteles Sandoval stated that  “what’s killing our youth is the [illegal] traffic in drugs, not the consumption of marijuana.”

Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado has taken the first step towards seeking reelection for a second term, appearing Friday, January 19 at the Chapala headquarters of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), to formalize his bid to head the party’s 2018 election ticket.

A new fleet of taxis being rolled out by the Jalisco state government are being touted as more environmentally sound and cheaper to gas up than their predecessors.

Clouds of dust and the thundering of hooves filled San Miguel Cuyutlan, a pueblo in the municipality of Tlajomulco, Sunday, January 21.