The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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).
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.
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.
Jalisco Governor Jorge Aristotoles Sandoval looked on proudly as pre-school, primary and secondary school students were given free supplies on Monday, thus keeping a promise he made during his election campaign last year.
The Jalisco Prosecutor General’s Office (FGE) has been undermined by a “web of corruption,” the state government admitted this week that.
Legislators from the conservative National Action Party (PAN) say they have not been directed by Roman Catholic leaders to oppose the same-sex union bill currently in the committee stages of the State Congress.
On Saturday, July 6, four youths went out to attend a party in the town of Lagos de Moreno and never came back.
Despite having been freed by a court in Miami last month, Sandra Avila Beltran, better known as “La Reina del Pacifico” or the “Queen of the Pacific,” found herself behind bars once again upon returning to Mexico this week.
