Equality bill provokes rabid reaction from Jalisco’s right
Conservative groups have mobilized in an effort to block the passage of a law that would enhance the rights of same-sex couples in Jalisco.
Conservative groups have mobilized in an effort to block the passage of a law that would enhance the rights of same-sex couples in Jalisco.
Boosted by an influx of international tourists from far-flung destinations such as Russia, Jalisco has reversed the recent decline in the number of visitors flying into its airports.
National Action Party (PAN) state legislator Gabriela Andalon has submitted an initiative to regulate marches and demonstrations in Jalisco that could provoke the wrath of defenders of civil rights.
Jalisco is just one heist away from a record year of bank robberies.
Overpopulation at Jalisco’s prisons has decreased this year, mainly thanks to large numbers of federal inmates being transferred to penitentiaries in other states.
Jalisco’s First Lady, Lorena Arriaga, who heads the state Family Development Agency (DIF), was ridiculed on social networks this month for delivering unhealthy candy bars to impoverished indigenous children instead of nutritious food supplies.
Six private hospitals in Jalisco have been slapped with a fine of more than 14 million pesos for price fixing, according to information released by the Federal Competition Commission (CFC).
At least four people were killed in Jalisco on Sunday, after tropical storm Manuel made landfall near the port of Manzanillo, Colima and proceeded to wreak havoc across western Mexico.
Four men aged between 18 and 24 have been charged in connection with the murder of six young men and a 38-year-old waiter in Lagos de Moreno in July.