General News

The U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara this week made a donation to a children’s public service brigade in Tlajomulco in conjunction with the U.S. Northern Command’s humanitarian assistance program.

The Interpretative Museum at the Guachimontones archaeological site will mark its fifth anniversary with a congress/seminar on Friday, February 24. Among speakers will be Reporter columnist John Pint (from 10 a.m.), as well as archaeologists Joseph Mountjoy and Rodrigo Esparza.

In a bizarre and tragic case that might qualify for the show “1000 Ways to Die, a young man lost his life on a Tonala street in the early hours of February 16. 

Governor Aristoteles Sandoval is urging tech firms in the United States that may be affected by new immigration restrictions on skilled foreign workers to consider Jalisco as an alternative. 

Although officials from the Donald Trump administration stress that new immigration enforcement policies in the United States will not translate into “mass deportations” of undocumented citizens, various institutions in the state of Jalisco are making preparations for a large influx of migrants.

The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) will create a special prosecutor’s office that will focus on cases of missing persons in the state.

What started out as a normal work day for several Zapopan garbage collectors turned into a bizarre and unsettling experience.

In the town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, state and federal police are the objects of rage as citizens demonstrate over the imprisonment and alleged torture of a security guard, Antonio Luna, whom authorities have accused of killing his three young sons, ages 4, 8 and 11, in a January 14 late night shootout involving police. Authorities also allege that on the same occasion Luna tried to kill his wife.