The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The immediate cost of flood relief and repairs in Jalisco communities ravaged by hurricanes and storms over the past few weeks is likely to soar to more than 500 million pesos ($US25 million), Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week.
The attendance figure during the first week of face-to-face classes at Jalisco primary and secondary schools (education basica) was 84.4 percent, Governor Enrique Alfaro announced this week.
According to state health authorities, 59.1 percent of the population aged 60 and over residing in Jalisco has been fully vaccinated.
A Tlaquepaque householder surveys the havoc caused by floodwater that poured into the Ojo de Agua neighborhood in the early hours of Saturday, September 4, after heavy rains caused a nearby reservoir to overflow.
Jalisco swimmer Arnulfo Castorena is looking to add to his impressive medal collection, as he competes in his sixth Paralympic Games, which got underway in Tokyo on August 24.
This resident of San Patricio/Melaque scooped up a fish from the entrance of Hotel Hacienda Melaque before the mud that had held the floodwater was dislodged.
A man traveling with his son was knifed to death in a case of extreme road rage that occurred near the Matute Remus suspension bridge on Guadalajara’s busy Avenida Lazaro Cardenas.
With winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour, category one Hurricane Nora pummeled the Jalisco coastline on its northward trajectory last weekend, causing sea surges, landslides, flash flooding and extensive damage to property — catastrophic in a few cases.
A bruising legal battle could unfold after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) declared that Jalisco alone should receive precious H2O from the Zapotillo Dam, under construction on the Verde River in the Los Altos region of this state.
