General News

The deaths of up to a million fish in Lake Cajititlan is sparking a bitter war of words between officials from rival political parties as experts struggle to determine whether natural causes or pollution is to blame for the ecological disaster.

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.  

For the third time this summer Lake Cajititlan has suffered a massive fish kill.

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.

More than 400 Huicholes quickly packed up their belongings and headed back to their homes in the north of Jalisco after receiving assurances from Interior Ministry (Segob) officials that grievances related to land rights will be addressed promptly.

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. 

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.