General News

Canadians (and others) wishing to celebrate their national day on Sunday with alcohol should load up on adult beverages before the introduction of ley seca (dry law), which forbids booze sales on election day and in the period leading up to the vote.

Fear of being a victim of crime has risen 60 percent in Jalisco in the last three years, according to a study published this week by the Citizens’ Institute of Studies on Insecurity.

With Jalisco at the heart of Mexico’s methamphetamine industry, consumption of the illicit drug has increased rapidly in recent years.

Restaurants in Jalisco are hoping for a boom in business during the London 2012 Olympic Games, with more customers coming to watch sports involving Mexican athletes.

Mexican elections are nowadays carried out in a far more honest manner than has often been the case in the past. 

The State Blood Transfusion Center (CETS) is to open 16 blood banks in municipalities across Jalisco before the end of 2012.

Mexican marines have located a clandestine drug laboratory in Jalisco near the spot where one of its helicopters crashed days earlier, killing its four occupants.

Adoptions in Jalisco may be placed on hold following the release of a video that appears to show two psychologists trying to convince two girls at a Guadalajara children’s home to be adopted by an Italian rather than a Mexican couple.