General News

Despite their much-publicized differences over various issues, including how the current pandemic is handled, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to provide federal protection for Governor Enrique Alfaro after it became known that the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG) has made Jalisco’s chief executive one of its main targets.

Last week’s attempt on the life of Mexico City police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch could be a harbinger of further violent confrontations between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and federal authorities, say close observers of the country’s crime scene.

A baby born to a Covid-19 positive mother at the “Zoquipan” General Hospital in Zapopan has tested negative for the disease and does not present any medical condition, doctors say.

Organizers of social events such as weddings, quinceañeras andanniversary parties, along with their affiliated workers (waiters, bartenders, etc.), staged a march and short demonstration in downtown Guadalajara this week, calling on the state government to provide protocols and a timeline for when they will be permitted to restart their labors.

In addition to warning that he will hit the panic button if the surge in the Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t flatten by mid-month (see story page one), Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro is calling on the mayors of the state’s major tourist destinations to tighten the screws on enforcement of disease prevention measures.

The Jalisco state Congress is organizing six round-table meetings – open to the various sectors of the public – prior to the drafting of a bill aimed at regulating the activities of real estate professionals in the state, Citizen Movement (MC) legislator Mirza Flores Gómez announced this week.

Although schools in Jalisco are due to open in six weeks, the full Covid-19 protocols that will need to be out in place are still far from clear.

Jalisco authorities have extended the deadline to pay the annual vehicle tax (refrendo) until the end of July.