General News

Lake Cajititlan, located some ten kilometers off the Guadalajara-Chapala highway, is, according to a Tlajomulco mayoral candidate, in imminent danger of bursting its banks as the Jalisco’s rainy season gears up for a record deluge.

Researchers at the University of Guadalajara’s Department of Physiology are urging lawmakers to enact policy to combat smoking among young people, going so far as to propose raising the minimum purchasing age to 25.

It’s not just in Ajijic where animal lovers are concerned by malefactors intent of harming canines. 

Mexican marines were pelted with rocks and had their vehicles vandalized by a group of demonstrators angry at the disappearance of two young men in the southern Jalisco city of Ciudad Guzman.

In Mexico’s burning sun, fur-coated canines can literally baste in a backyard or on a rooftop.

According to the soothsayers at the University of Guadalajara Meteorology Institute (IAM), citizens who have only just managed to recover from the city’s baking heat wave will very shortly be hit by a wall of water as the rainy season kicks into gear.  

Luis Carlos Najera, the former Attorney General who on May 21 was almost gunned down by a cartel commando in broad daylight, has decided to step down from his current post as Secretary of Labor, citing concern for the security and well-being of his co-workers, which would be compromised if he remains a target of the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG), a powerful and ruthless cartel that controls much of the state.

Rain, thunder and plenty of man-made commotion are hallmarks of the traditional festivities held from June 5 through 13 in San Antonio Tlayacapan in tribute to the town’s religious patron, Saint Anthony of Padua.