Jalisco candidates challenge election results
A day after Ramiro Hernandez of the PRI won the mayoral election, his defeated opponent pledged to fight the result.
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A day after Ramiro Hernandez of the PRI won the mayoral election, his defeated opponent pledged to fight the result.
Poultry farmers are continuing the slaughter of chickens infected with N7N3 avian flu in the Jalisco municipalities of Tepatitlan and Acatic.
As expected, Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won the election for governor of the state of Jalisco, albeit by a much smaller margin than most opinion polls had forecast.
Around 7,00 primary school teachers in Jalisco will take professional evaluation exams on Friday.
Jalisco’s novel electronic voting system appears to have met performance expectations, with only minor foul-ups reported during the July 1 election.
An outbreak of H7N3 (bird flu) has killed more than 210,000 birds at poultry farms in Jalisco’s Los Altos region.
With almost one million birds dead, Mexican authorities have declared a national animal health emergency to help prevent the spread of N7N3 avian flu from chicken farms in Jalisco to other parts of the country.
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.
See election day images in Chapala and Guadalajara.