General News

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. 

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.

Last weekend, the city’s most fervently devoted Catholics continued their campaign against “Sincretismo,” a sculpture on the center divider of Federalismo (within sight of the Templo de Nuestra Señora del Refugio)

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.

Unprotected rail crossings in Mexico represent a significant danger for motorists – especially those who like to drive on the edge.