The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco Congress ratified Jesus Eduardo Alamguer Ramirez as the new state fiscal (attorney general) Thursday by a vote of 33 in favor and one abstention. He was subsequently sworn in at the Government Palace in the presence of Governor Aristoteles Sandoval.
After weeks of speculation, Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera has stepped down from his post as the state’s senior law enforcement official.
Jalisco Health Department officials have warned homeowners about “phony brigades” of fumigators prowling neighborhoods claiming to work for their agency.
As the legal tango continued this week between longtime Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) violinist Jolanta Michalewicz and orchestra administrators, who reportedly denied her entry to the Teatro Degollado on Tuesday, sources familiar with the orchestra’s problems say that many media reports contain errors or are “lies motivated by either parties’ agenda.”
The Jalisco legislature is not obliged to change the state Civil Code in the aftermath of a Mexican Supreme Court ruling that deems state laws that discriminate against same-sex marriage to be “unconstitutional.”
After weeks of speculation, Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera stepped down from his post as the state's senior law enforcement official Monday. Although the change seems to have been preplanned, only days earlier Najera had been roundly criticized by Guadalajara mayor-elect Enrique Alfaro for "jumping to conclusions" in a shooting incident involving his wife's driver.
Student bus crashes
An end-of-semester beach trip to Zihuatanejo for University of Guadalajara high school students ended in tragedy Thursday after the Primera Plus bus they were traveling in crashed near the Michaocan town of Pinzandaran. One student was killed and 39 injured. Police say the driver was speeding and lost control of the bus
Jalisco lawmakers have binned an assisted dying bill that would have given people with terminal illnesses a greater say in how they live out their final days.
The British Council in Mexico will evaluate the levels of 1,500 English middle school (secundaria) teachers in Jalisco after a national study revealed that 97 percent of public school students end their educations with virtually no knowledge of the language.
