Organ traffickers not operating in Jalisco, police chief says
Authorities have no proof that organized criminals in Jalisco are involved in the kidnapping of children to harvest their organs, Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera said this week.
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Authorities have no proof that organized criminals in Jalisco are involved in the kidnapping of children to harvest their organs, Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera said this week.
Hampered by strong winds, some 150 firefighters this week successfully battled two fires in the Cerro del Tepopote, an extension of the Parque Metropolitano in Zapopan.
Forensic scientists have yet to identify any of the 19 corpses found recently by state police in a wooded area outside Tlajomulco.
More than 15,000 celebrants are expected to visit the archaeological ruins at Guachimontones, outside Teuchitlan, Jalisco between March 20 and 23. Spring rituals are held at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. daily, with concerts and dance shows at 8 p.m.
The Jalisco Congress has approved a bill that seeks to address victims’ rights with additional legal protection and financial restitution.
U.S. couple hit by Vallarta bus
A couple in their 80s from Arizona are recovering at a hospital in Puerto Vallarta after being run over by a bus there on Wednesday.
Children’s cancer hospital to open later this year
Wild outfits, costumes and humorous themes were the operating rules for elaborately decorated floats in Ajijic’s Carnaval parade.
Discrimination and racism are “mental and psychological diseases” that must be tackled through public policy, just as a doctor cures a sick patient, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum told a rapt audience at the State Congress building Tuesday.