The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
Legislator Hector Pizano Ramos has submitted a proposal to the Jalisco Congress that would increase the terms of mayors in the state from three to four years.
August 28 marked the “Dia del Abuelo” in Mexico, leading politicians across the country to speak, purportedly in earnest, of the importance of caring for the elderly.
Federal police arrested a man driving a truck laden with over a ton of marijuana in northern Jalisco this week.
The Jalisco Prosecutor General’s Office (FGE) has been undermined by a “web of corruption,” the state government admitted this week that.
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has instructed his secretary general to send a package of penal reforms to the State Congress that would see terms of life imprisonment imposed for certain crimes, including murder with aggravating circumstances, murder of a police officer, feminicide (the killing of females by males because they are female) and parricide (killing one’s father, mother or other close relatives).
On Saturday, July 6, four youths went out to attend a party in the town of Lagos de Moreno and never came back.
A local indigenous leader claims he was tortured by state police and told to falsely implicate a number of officials after being arrested last week.
Two federal environmental agencies have given the green light for Jalisco state legislators to start a process that will eventually designate the Santiago and Verde watersheds as naturally protected areas.
