General News

Should we expect state-federal relations to plummet if leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins the presidency and former Guadalajara mayor Enrique Alfaro becomes the next governor of Jalisco on July 1 – as the polls increasingly suggest?

This summer, eight students from Guadalajara’s ITESO university will travel to the University of Central Arkansas, as part of the 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative.

Monday’s disturbing violence, involving a brazen attempt on the life of former Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera and the subsequent torching of several buses (see story page one), has rattled nerves and rekindled outrage still flickering from the disappearances of three film students in March.

During a robotics competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, two teams from Jalisco won gold and bronze awards for their efforts.   

The corpses of three murder victims were discovered early Tuesday, May 15 at two sites located within the boundaries of Jocotepec.

The Mexican Association of Car Distributors (AMDA) blamed the dip on rising cost of automobiles and diminished purchasing power.

A mere half of all 152 companies registered with the Tequila Regulatory Council (CRT) – the body which governs the production and sale of Jalisco’s most well-known export – are actually producing tequila on a regular basis, while the remaining half are only sporadically doing so.

Guadalajara’s new state-of-the-art planetarium should be up and running by October at the latest, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval announced this week during a visit to the site, located a stone’s throw from La Normal Glorieta.