The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco’s wave of violence is showing no sign of letting up, as evidenced by the gruesome discovery last week of 20 bodies stuffed into plastic bags in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador were once close political allies but fell out before the 2018 general election. They traded many barbs during that campaign but both won their respective races. Peace now seems to have prevailed, and last weekend’s visit by Lopez Obrador to Guadalajara — his first as president — went off in a thoroughly amicable manner.
Not a single state official has yet to receive any kind of sanction more than one year after Jalisco installed its Fiscalía Anticorrupciónan (Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption).
A total of 23 people have died from influenza-associated causes during the 2018-2019 flu season in the state of Jalisco.
Based on how merely six out of every 100 homicides were prosecuted in 2018, Jalisco Attorney General Gerardo Octavio Solís has attributed today’s high rate of impunity to ineffectual previous administrations and “too many guns on the streets.”
Fines for driving without a current Jalisco driver’s license are to increase significantly if the State Congress approves an initiative presented this week by the legislature’s Mobility and Transport Commission.
More than 600 Jalisciences have enrolled in Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro (Youth Constructing the Future), a national program providing apprenticeships and scholarships to 60,000 young adults in Mexico with few job prospects.
By Jacob Atkins
Tequila lovers are looking forward to celebrating National Tequila Day this Saturday, March 16.
Seven state police officers assigned to the amphibious police squad based in Chapala were arrested Monday, February 18 following a spot inspection at their headquarters at the Cristiania Park.
