General News

The president of Mexico and the governors of Jalisco and Colima teamed up this week to announce that the final parts of the four-lane Guadalajara-Colima-Manzanillo highway will be completed by the end the year.

Catarina Orduña Pérez’s dying wish was a little more than merely unusual.

A watershed moment was marked last week when trailers replete with 220 tons of avocados left a packing plant in Zapotiltic, Jalisco en route for the United States.

Twelve former state officials have been charged with offenses following investigations by the Fiscalía Anticorrupción de Jalisco (Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office), a division set up in November 2018.

Travelers heading out of Guadalajara on the Nogales highway (to Tepic, Puerto Vallarta and the north-west of Mexico) should expect to encounter some new road works as they leave the city suburbs over the next few months.

The first 54 Cuban doctors hired by the federal government to provide care in remote or marginalized communities of the country have started work in Tepic, Nayarit. 

More than 200,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to girls and boys aged 5 to 11 years in Jalisco, the state Health Department (SSJ) reports. 

Two tourists from Colorado were attacked by crocodiles when they went for an evening dip in the ocean at their Puerto Vallarta resort last week.