General News

Jalisco’s novel electronic voting system appears to have met performance expectations, with only minor foul-ups reported during the July 1 election.

An outbreak of H7N3 (bird flu) has killed more than 210,000 birds at poultry farms in Jalisco’s Los Altos region.

With almost one million birds dead, Mexican authorities have declared a national animal health emergency to help prevent the spread of N7N3 avian flu from chicken farms in Jalisco to other parts of the country.

Canadians (and others) wishing to celebrate their national day on Sunday with alcohol should load up on adult beverages before the introduction of ley seca (dry law), which forbids booze sales on election day and in the period leading up to the vote.

As expected, Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won the election for governor of the state of Jalisco, albeit by a much smaller margin than most opinion polls had forecast.

With Jalisco at the heart of Mexico’s methamphetamine industry, consumption of the illicit drug has increased rapidly in recent years.

See election day images in Chapala and Guadalajara.

Mexican elections are nowadays carried out in a far more honest manner than has often been the case in the past.