The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco’s leftist alliance has been shattered ahead of the July 1 gubernatorial elections due to a lingering feud between the coalition leader and local elites of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Although Jalisco has more swine flu cases than almost anywhere on earth in 2012, both local authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) have said there is no cause for panic.
Michoacan’s Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary has suffered a one-third drop in visitors: both human and insect.
New security measures have been implemented in the wake of last Friday’s city and state-wide narcoblockades.
With the Pacific railroad offering the longest but least dangerous route to the United States, the number of migrants passing through Guadalajara has increased by up to 75 percent in the last six months.
Anti-bullying legislation approved by the Jalisco Congress defines bullying in state law for the first time and outlines prevention policies that school administrators are obliged to take.
A legal injunction granted to communal agrarian groups (ejidos) looks set to delay the start of work on the 110-kilometer macrolibramiento, the ambitious outer city beltway planned to run in a semi-circle to the south of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
President Felipe Calderon underscored encouraging job numbers for February during a review of progress at the massive La Yesca dam project on the border of Jalisco and Nayarit this week.
Although Jalisco is the state with the third most deaths from A-H1N1 in 2012, Governor Emilio Gonzalez has said there is no cause for alarm, as health authorities have “everything under control.”