General News

Members of Jalisco’s Huichol indigenous community say they are prepared to camp outside federal offices in Guadalajara for as long as it takes to get 10,000 hectares of land returned to their rightful possession.

Jalisco Attorney General Carlos Najera is loosing patience with his critics in the wake of the arrest of two public servants in connection with the August 3 murder of Ayutla Mayor Manuel Gomez Torres and a municipal employee.

As the new academic term got under way this week, approximately 11,000 students enrolled in Chapala’s public schools lined up to collect school supplies and backpacks parceled out free of charge through the government-sponsored Mochilas con Utiles program. While the hand-out represents big savings for parents facing major expenses to put their kids through school, it comes as a blow to many small businesses.  

Residents of Guadalajara will be the main sufferers if the Zapotillo Dam in northeast Jalisco is not built to its planned height of 105 meters, the director general of Mexico’s National Water Commission (CNA) said this week.

After a six-week summer break, around 1.7 million Jalisco primary and secondary school children donned new uniforms and returned to classes as the 2014/15 school year began Monday August 18.

One out of every four cops in the state of Jalisco has flunked the national police vetting exam, known as control de confianza.

Around 2,000 young people had the time of their lives last Sunday as they unleashed powder paints of multiple colors at the Minerva Fountain during an animated celebration of International Youth Day 2014. 

Manuel Gomez Torres, the 74-year-old mayor of Ayutla, Jalisco, was ambushed by unidentified gunmen as he returned to his ranch Sunday along with his bodyguard, identified as José de Jesús Hernández, 60. Both men died at the scene.